I found the inner struggle that Nola the character from Spike Lee’s film ‘She’s Gotta Have it’ to be very relatable. In society there are always pressures to act a certain way, to be the way you think others want you to be. Figuring out who you are and what you want in life is challenge for everyone, self identity crisis’s and a struggle for personal meaning can take a toll on all. In Hughes’ piece, he talks about a black poet wants to be more like a white poet…because they act ‘right’. In Lee’s film Nola is getting things that she needs and desires from all three men that she is seeing but feels pressure to make a choice between them because it is what is ‘right’.
I thought this essay and movie felt together very well. Both were about realizing and embracing your individuality and doing what you truly want for yourself instead of trying to be someone that everyone else wants you to be.
