Rating: 4 / 5
Genre: Documentary
B-Boy planet is a documentary on break dancing. The term comes from 'Beat Boy' and is part of the three major components of the hip hop culture and style of expression.
One dude said (somethin like) "Man, it's the DJ's, the rappers, and the b-boys. Hip hop is all about telling people what you're about, what's your thing and how you feel." I didn't know this, but real hip hop isn't a gangsta thing. It was born in the poor black families scattered around the world. The kids had this energy, and a need for identity. So hip hop was born and it's all about the beat, and how you interpret it.
The movie followed four b-boy teams as they entered the biggest break dancing competition in the world. It's called battle of the year, and it all goes down in Germany.
The movie centered on three kids, one from the Japanese team, one from the French team, and one from Korea's team. It was beautiful to see something like dancing, and break dancing in particular, transcend languages, cultures and religions. Individualism and heritage and group play a huge part in style.
These are kids and young men who have all this energy and drive, sometimes anger, sometimes joy, and they need to express it. So instead of fighting, or doing drugs, or sex, they dance. But to watch it, it has all the healthy elements of all those things. So much raw intensity and feeling can be put into it, man, it's just really something to see. Dude, the passion and skill. It floored me.
It was a glimpse into a new movement amongst modern youth in the world. It's no wonder that America hasn't won in 10 years. We're just not that good, and i think we're too lazy, and frankly it was a little embarrassing to see the contrast in ethics.
Following are rated 0%=Not an element to 100%=A screaming element
Spirituality 90% (Many religions)
Sexuality 20% (Brief bar dancers)
Language 70% (F,D,A,H,S)
Blasphemy 20% (G)
Positivity 100%
Importance 75%
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