I just don't get it.

Rating: 1/10 (26 June 2006)

I shouldn't pretend to be consistent when it comes to my reasons for not liking movies, but if there's one thing that gets to me it's a movie that feels false. And everything is this movie felt false to me. The characters made NO sense, yet I assume we're supposed to see them as compelling. Characters are racist in one scene and heroes in the next.
It tries to justify some of the most deplorable behavior I've ever seen in a film, yet it gets treated like it's so gritty and real. I'm black. I've been harassed by the police and I've never done some of the foolish crap the characters did in this film. I guess it isn't even so much that as the fact that people use this film as some kind of reference point for race relations. NEWSFLASH! People have always been prejudiced and the prejudice of a black person and the prejudice of a white person are not and never will be the same. One is built from nothing but a desire to be superior and the other is built from centuries of injustice and suffering. Can a white person pin an act of violence to black people? Of course. Can a white person ever say he's known what it's like to be the person who will always have to work a little harder because of the color of his skin? Nope! This convoluted and often downright stupid movie was nothing but a guaranteed way to get an Oscar by being "edgy" if you can call it that and shoving a very heavy handed message down the throats of America. I thought this movie was very say on many level and actually quite disgusting. I HATED this movie!