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Reaction Paper About The Movie 8 Mile

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During this week’s class of City, the Society, and Urban Space, we watched a film by the name of 8 Mile. 8 Mile is a movie that I have been wanting to watch for a long time, but I just could not find the chance to do so in the past. The reason that I wanted to see this movie so much is mainly due to the fact that Eminem is one of my favorite artists, and I also think that his rap style is really unique. That is why I felt really happy and satisfied after finishing this film in class. The movie 8 Mile focuses on the life and course of events of its main character, Jimmy Smith Jr., who also goes by the nickname of B. Rabbit. He has a group of friends called the “Three One Threes” that think he is a talented rapper. At a very early stage in the film, Jimmy goes to rap battle with another group of rappers who goes by “Tha Leadaz of tha Free World” and accidently chokes up on stage. After his defeat, he goes back to the trailer home where he lives with his mother and baby sister. The following …show more content…

8 Mile is mainly based in Detroit, the hometown of Eminem, who portrays Jimmy in the film. The title of the movie 8 Mile is a road in situated in the suburbs of Detroit called the “Eight Mile Road,” which is also an invisible boundary that separates lower class African-Americans to the south of the road and white people to the north of the road. In the movie, it is depicted that Jimmy lives on the north side of Eight Mile Road and often crosses the road to the south side of the road to hang around with his friends, which is in fact accurate to the real situation in Detroit. Also historically accurate is the part where Jimmy goes to work at a car factory. Detroit has been one of the biggest car manufacturing cities in the world since the twentieth century, and most of these factories are located in industrial areas near the suburbs south of the Eight Mile

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