Im hungry for some honey nut cheerios
A Prophet is that sort of movie: a prison drama bursting at its bloody seams with sublime moments. One in particular spills out onto the cell floor to rise up and shank itself into our memories permanently. Director Jacques Audiard commits a masterstroke of genius by blasting Nas Bridging the Gap over an electrifying montage of young prisoner Malik rising to power in prison.
Nas track does more than highlight Maliks Machiavellian brilliance: Old School, new school, no school rules. Like Nas, Malik largely educates himself. Whether it is secretly learning the language of his Corsican mafia sponsors or sitting economic exams to boost his drug dealing business, Malik may not be as legally innocent as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption, but he still had to come to prison to be a crook.
Nas fukked