>Peace Eaves,
Your bottom comments are in line with my comment and also Yemi Toure's review of the film in The Black World Today.

>Interesting, People of color in film
>are usually divorced from kin,
>community and a sense of
>history.
>
>
>>I am so amazed at how
>>divided people are about this
>>movie. Personally, I and
>>pretty much everyone else in
>>the theatre with me felt
>>like we had sat in
>>front of some dude jacking
>>off and got the evidence
>>of such, on the backs
>>of our necks.
>>

>> How about Halle hawking
>>her wedding ring to buy
>>her new man a big
>>ol' "white cowboy hat"?
>>How about there being no
>>story line that speaks of
>>Leticia's history and community, as
>>clearly as it spoke of
>>Hank's? I mean hey,
>>those are only a few.
>>
>>
>>Sure you can argue what the
>>director was trying to do
>>in what he provided on
>>screen, but truly, how many
>>of you, faced with a
>>female relative or acquaintence in
>>this scenario, would be so
>>quick to applaud or romanticize
>>these decisions?
>>
>>peace
>>
>>Life is a cycle and only
>>you determine whether it be
>>a circle or a spiral.
>>