A movie that I have seen from the 1990s is Felix Gary Gray's Friday. I think that Friday does have a black aesthetic because of the setting and conflict of the movie. The movie’s plot centered around the life within the black neighborhood of the protagonist and the follow him through his day. With this focus, we follow the lifestyle of the black suburbia. This movie works as a comedy because it relates to a black audience of their experience in the suburbs themselves.
The movie “Boyz N the Hood” by John Singleton is surprisingly still an impactful movie many years after its release. In this film, it displayed the harshness of the violence and conflict in black communities. This movie worked so well because it not only did it address the issues of systematic oppression but it did not lay heavy blame on an individual group. It showed the harm of police brutality, the issue of violence and poverty and how it affects the people within the community. It also does not target white audiences by placing blame on them thus making it easier for them to watch and allow them still be just as informed to the issue and address them. Even 31 years after its release, the issues of the movie are still in place today. The creation and growth of the #BlackLivesMatter and the unwillingness to address black on black crime are still present.