Hoop Dreams

I appreciate hooks’ honesty in all of her critical film reviews/assessments. In her critical analysis of Hoop Dreams, she examines the role viewers play when watching images of race and defines viewers who are critically aware as "enlightened witnesses.” I support Hooks' argument and the notion that people should be more critical and open minded when viewing any form of media on screen. Also, I like her counter argument on the narrative in Hoop Dreams as showing a form of institutionalized racism as it exists in the film because it reflects a completely different representation of the film than the trailer's framework of the documentary.