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.
>
>Everyone's real quick to analyze the
>obvious but no one takes
>closer looks at Hank and
>his "black coffee" & "chocolate
>ice cream" and white plastic
>spoon fetish (can anyone say
>phallic reference?), which by the
>way he always throws up
>the next day, even after
>his so-called passionate exchange w/
>Halle, which is suppose to
>be a turning point in
>his soul, apparently the turning
>point couldn't reach his stomach.
> 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.
>