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Despite what other favourable reviews might have contended about this movie, the simple fact is that it is all over the place. There is little to no clear direction of the story of this film, and a tiny coda at the end comes completely out of nowhere.
Ostensibly it purports to be a study of interracial (the term in this context apparently being exclusive to blacks and whites, not any other ethnic groups) cross-culturalisation. However, what it really does is portray foolish urban upper class white kids who are rebelling against their parents by acting black, which seems to involve smoking weed, utterly mispronouncing English words, swearing left, right and centre and practicing total sexual promiscuity. Pardon me if I don't think that just a little denigrating not only to blacks but also to whites.
Besides that...the criminal element of the black story, the gay husband of the documentary filmmaker - these things don't have any relevance to what one might think was the main issue of the story.
If the film really does anything at all, it certainly points up the self-evident stupidity of teenage rebellion. At the start of the 1990s, teenagers acted surly, refused to wash their hair and listened to loud, angry white rock music. At the turn of the millennium, apparently they slur their words almost into incoherence, and listen to loud, angry black music. Nice progression there, kids. However, I fail to see why precisely this not exactly pressing issue required a filmic examination and, even if it did, this wouldn't be the movie that did it justice. It's an incoherent mess, plain and simple.
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CRichardSemple 17 April 2001
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