Hustle and Flow

Recently, I had the chance to watch an incredible indie film, Hustle & Flow, about a drug dealing pimp in the backwaters of Memphis who lives his dream of becoming a successful rapper. I found a lot of inspiration here for dream pursuit - and you will, too.

Winner of the Sundance Festival Audience Award, and recent winner of the Oscar for Best Song, 'It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp', this film's already way on the map. You've got to order this thing from Netflix and see it, as I imagine it's long gone from the theaters.

Here's what I loved about Hustle & Flow: it conveys one of my key messages - that your creative self-expression is the fast road to healing. It can give you back your mojo in about one minute when you connect to that magical spirit - even when you're a down and out pimp having a mid life crisis. You can just feel that passion that pours through his soul.

Yes, there was violence. Yes, we're heroizing a guy who's made a lot of mistakes. BUT DJ, the star, totally redeems himself the minute he lets himself become vulnerable enough to write down some lyrics, share them and sing them. Even his hookers get in on the act, one managing him and the other singing back up. The ending is just as surprising and great as the movie itself.

Check it out!

Comments

[Leilani]

Yes I saw the movie too with hubby and you are right it is very inspiriational....love the work you do it has helped me so much in my own path..thank you for all your hard work and efforts...

[Douglas Eby]

Thanks, Suzanne - the star, Terrence Howard [also in “Crash”] is an exceptionally talented actor. Being creative can heal us in so many ways, on many levels. As I note in my Developing Talent blog post “Being creative to save ourselves” [devtalent.blogspot.com] psychiatrist Judith Orloff M.D. says creativity “is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self."