It's like you've taken a time machine back and you keep thinking to yourself ''Gee your life's going to end up in a weird place in 20 years.'' Assuming the two characters are of the same person.
Why not believe that. We keep interlinking all these other movies with other forms of media to create ''coherence universes''.
It's all ridiculous.
Foxy Brown is a unique film in that if it had taken a little bit more effort and pushed it story in one directions it could have avoided being called a blaxploitation film.
It has the chance to talk about drug problems, sibling family issues (through the influence of drugs and Society) dealing with drug dealers or even the disgusting imagery racism.
But it decides it's just to tackle everything kind of half-heartedly and show Pam Grier body off an awful lot.
Which is a whole thing with second-wave feminist movement and it became a point of contention with a wac-load of people at the time It's still kind of debate it now.
Though I suspect people don't really care anymore.
Pam Grier sonder out because that's kind of what she was paid to do.
Little bit of a shame that's what she's known for in this film given that she is the glue that keeps this whole thing going.
Pam Grier is a pretty good actour and if it wasn't for her particular brand of acting I don't think this movie would have worked out all that well.
So a Foxy Brown is portrayed as this no-nonsense kind of Kick-Ass individual who can take on an entire crime syndicate if given the right opportunity.
But that's not really how he character starts.
She's just this tough girl who doesn't want to put up with any punks crap. But she only ends up becoming the ''don't mess with me'' individual once her boyfriend is killed and she gets forced into this miserable situation where shes semi addicted to heroin and getting molested by a literal skinhead racist assholes.
And that's the part of the movie that I don't think his aged all that well.
The rape is played off as brutal and horrible but it still has a twinge of sexuality to it.
It starts the border on pornographic and it just makes it feel kind of disgusting. Like people are getting off to this. And I'm not going to say to you can't do that kind of a story in a film but you should probably dedicate more time to it or explore the consequences of it.
And the whole thing wouldn't come off being so tasteless. It should have just taking itself less seriously or really pushed himself into some of those Grim scenarios.
You watch a movie like 'Shaft' or 'Superfly' and it's turned up to 11 all the time, with ridiculous fighting and horribly over the top villains.
You can kind of overlooked whan it wants to have a serious moment involving drugs or more personalised murder.
But you don't really get that with Foxy Brown she ends up getting semi addicted to heroin and rate and the whole thing is just sleazy. The one thing the rapist treated as a negative committed by a horrible man but they still plan to play it off of that sexy imagery and you just know that a bunch of people are getting off to it.
It's really Sleazy and then you have the heroin problem which they completely neglect to acknowledge.
Her character gets addicted to heroin for maybe 20 minutes and then it's never brought up again. And maybe you could say they didn't want to tackle something that bad in the early 70s but didn't get a show like 'Starsky and Hutch' (of all things) which had an episode focussing on that very problem and Hutch being addicted and it screwed him up throwout the entire episode.
Sadly the problem with Heroin overshadows the problem of sexual misconduct. Foxy Brown gets caught after she helps this girl from escaping a life of prostitution and blackmail.
(A girl who by the way is completely forgotten about for the rest of the story.) And the people who captured Foxy decide to dos her up on heroin so they can keep her subdued. Guaranteeing that she can't escape whatever horrible predicament she'll be put into.
But the movie doesn't do anything with this plot.
Foxy Brown doesn't have withdrawal syndromes, she's not withheld heroine to make her do horrible things and it's never brought up again after she's able to escape this horrible farmhouse where she was being molested by those disgusting racist men.
The whole thing is just ignored afterwards and we're never privy to any of that information again.
The whole movie could have been based on that one part of the story.
Trying to escape a most disgusting situation and then dealing with the circumstances of it afterwards.
There's a lot of a real-life tragedy end misery that could have made for a truly spectacular and intense film.
But instead it's just played off as one more point of exploitative media.
It's especially distasteful given that the film supposed to be about the evils of drug Runners and stopping a bunch of dealers from ruining the lives of other people.
You can't fight the power of drugs and then ignore what they said drugs do to you.
And the worst thing about all that is that it's sours what is otherwise a perfectly acceptable 70s action film involving a lady taking on the evils of the world.
There's a decent amount of entertainment and the whole film feels kind of Carefree with everybody's silly attitude and Jive talkin personality. But trying to overlook the horrific activities that happened in the middle of this film just makes it kind of difficult.
I mean there are some wonderful scenes in this film. Like how Foxy Brown and this other girl trick this scummy politician into getting himself half-naked before they purposely push him out of the hotel room and make it look like he was sexually harassing this other woman who just left her suite. And how that completely screws up the drug operations because they can't bribe the politician anymore.
What about the endingwhere Foxy Brown kind of gets her revenge on the drug dealers by literally cutting off this one guy's dick and then giving it to his girlfriend as a kind of screw you gift.
Their whole relationship was kind of weird in the movie too.
There's this woman who supposed to be the main antagonist and she comes off being really powerful and scary at the beginning of the film and then just devolves into secondary character who gets overshadowed by this other guy (who eventually gets his dick cut off).
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