This film starts with Chris Rock wondering what is good hair. His tiny little daughter is unhappy with nappy hair and questions him why she does not have good hair. He sets off on a mission to figure out what this is all about. His questions take him all the way to India, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Although the movie is very funny, thanks to Chris Rock, it deals with difficult issues of conformance and the superficiality of looks.
It talks about how important it has become for black women to have straight hair. They have been constantly bombarded with the images of European women having hair that moves. Apparently a lot of black women spend more on their hair than the rent or mortgage and the pain that one needs to go through to obtain a man made standard of what is considered good looks.
I enjoyed the section where Chris Rock goes to India to check out how Indian hair is exported to Los Angeles. All the way from a temple in Thirupathi. This section of the movie was quite hilarious, but I had not known that human hair was exported, it was sold and more precious than gold. The temples in India are such a rip off. They sell the hair that is offered to God as prayer.
with nappy hair and questions him why she does not have good hair. He sets off on a mission to
figure out what this is all about. His questions take him all the way to India, Atlanta and Los
Angeles. Although the movie is very funny, thanks to Chris Rock, it deals with difficult issues
of conformance and the superficiality of looks.
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Yes, it is a good business.
The hair are sorted and exported thru Chennai.
Blond hair is more expensive that black ones.
The cheapest is white hair …
It would be good to know how the benefit is used .
If it is distributed to poor people, why not ?
Ok, there is no blonde hair available in India. Unless it is from the yogis who move to India. But I have noticed the hair of the yogis is quite useless. It is matted and has not seen soap or water in years.
I don’t think the people are benefited in any way. I don’t think anybody knows that the hair is being exported out. They do it out of faith, as an offering. I did not know this until I watched this film.