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                                    December 2008 - This short movie gives
                                    sights and sounds to a conflict and dilemma
                                    that is not really there, either... Is
                                    dreadlocks a hairstyle, is it just for a
                                    specific race or religion? Is Dread Rasta,
                                    is Rasta Dread?In this 21st
                                    century, it seems like "everyone"
                                    wears dreadlocks. From Rastafari elders in
                                    Jamaica, to reports of even neo-nazi's
                                    wearing their hair uncombed. A thing which
                                    has the interest of just about everyone even
                                    remotely interested in Rastafari and Reggae
                                    Culture, that's for sure. Just who
                                    are the dreads in this time, anyway? This
                                    short movie takes us to the UK, where we'll
                                    find a group of white kids being interviewed
                                    as they sit on a barber chair. Not much
                                    spirituality, not much Rastafari, not much
                                    of anything but cosmetic reasons drove them
                                    to stop combing their hair or even going to
                                    the barber to get "dreadlocks". Surely,
                                    this is kind of offensive to those who know
                                    themselves to be dreadlocks based on
                                    spiritual reasons, Rastafari reasons. We see
                                    them too, in the video. Some will admit they
                                    started to grow dreadlocks because of
                                    cosmetic reasons, others will talk about the
                                    difference between being a Dread and being a
                                    Rasta. As a
                                    militant Mad Professor Dub plays in the back
                                    ground and we move towards the end of the
                                    ten minutes, the frustration has become
                                    clear. In the very last minute, we see the
                                    ultimate answer to this phenomena where
                                    dreadlocks have become the fashion of people
                                    who have nothing to do with any form of
                                    spirituality whatsoever... 
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