Canadian made trash!

Rating: 3/10 (7 September 2005)

Do not rent or buy this film. When I rented this film, I thought that this will be a well made film about California social problems, instead it is sparsely puzzle of unintelligent and unrounded characters molded into some melodrama about our problems here in America. Like we don't already know that. Instead of filming a fine piece of film work, the young director focused his attention on irrelevant stats about incarceration rates and middle eastern Persians and Muslims. It's his own opinions on the matter and they offer no perspective on American urban life. What we don't need is some Canadian director making a film on it. As an African-American-I felt the director was trying to preach to me on what it means to be black, like he or any other white American would really know. That's like telling white people what it is to be white. The film is an insult to any intellectual viewer who likes independent films. We don't go to that scummy overpriced and overtaxed nation in Canada. Perhaps Canadians should stick to what they know best, hockey.