Movies

All credit to Spike Lee for one of the boldest movies ever. I saw this awhile ago, and also enjoyed the searing commentary from Spike Lee on DVD. The send-up of the Ving Rhames-Jack Lemmon award scene was something to behold, and highlights the racial servitude that Spike aims to poke in the eye big time.

Being white, and european, I'm not really sure about the point of this movie seen in an american perspective. But as a european it really opened my eyes to a strange fact: if your only knowledge about black America comes from television, you WOULD really think, that all afro-americans were gangsters, rappers or Urkel-like comedians, that is: stereotypes. You very rarely see an american show, or movie, where a black american is portrayed as a complex human being. And that really IS scary.

I wish I could have seen this in the theater back in 2000. Sadly, I lived 200 miles away from a theater at the time. Regardless, this is a raw, honest open movie about the black community that should be seen by everyone.