Guest blogger: Iman 2

Shottas is a movie about young Jamaican boys learning the hard life at a young age. In this movie there are two main characters Ky-mani Marley (Biggs) and Wayne (Spragga Benz). It starts out in Jamaica where these two boys are always together but they’re family is very poor. They want to find a way out of that life and they do one day when one of them comes up with a plan to rob a soda truck. They go through with their plan and get a lot of money. So they decide to buy visas to go to the United States so they can live a better life. They go to the United States and get deported back to Jamaica with empty pockets and broken dreams. They start making money in Jamaica and they blackmail one of the politicians to make them visas to go back to the United States. They go back and go back to selling drugs. They start making a lot of money and all of their rivals start trying to get rid of them. The thing that I took most from this movie was that you can come from a low place and make it to the top. But the way they made it to the top wasn’t the best way and you can see from the movie that they get into trouble with the law. In the movie Biggs motivation was to make money and live the dream he’s always wanted. He does make all the money he was hoping for but when you watch the movie you can see that it comes with a lot of problems and the more money he makes the more trouble he was having. Wayne had the same motivation has Biggs and in the movie his brother gets killed in Jamaica for doing the same thing he does, selling drugs. Some critics say that they had high expectations for this movie and that it wasn’t the way they thought it was going to be. But I think this was a really good movie and gives you a good look on the life these guys live. I would recommend you to watch this movie.