I didn't get the Point

Rating: 2/10 (14 May 2005)

I'm curious as to the target market for this film. My wife, mother and I walked out of the showing of this film after 30 minutes. I just don't get the point of distributing a film that promotes the origins of stereotypes. Don't we all know where the stereotypes came from? Don't we also know that there are people who continue to believe in those stereotypes? Don't we also know that there are those who fit the stereotypes? As a society, have we not progressed past many of the stereotypes and attitudes portrayed in this film? In large, the stereotypes and attitudes as portrayed in this film are outdated. Being an African American male, living in the south and working in an industry that very few blacks choose as a career, I encounter racism daily. However, it is more sophisticated and not nearly as blatant as what was shown in this film. If attitudes like that still exist in L.A., then that city is far behind the rest of the country in terms of race relations and racial attitudes and behaviors. This film will do more to hurt progress of race relations that it does to improve them. I intend to go back to see this film with the hope that at some point during the movie, I'll get the point and the value.