Great Acting, but Audience Needs to Remember Bigger Picture

Rating: 3/10 (20 April 2006)

Yes, the acting here is great. The main characters are very charming, and the viewer wants to support them. But, remember, the hero here makes his living selling teenage girls. Moving from selling girls to singing about selling girls is an improvement, but still hardly noble.
The word "pimp" is commonplace today. MTV, for example, has shows with the word in the title. And these are not shows warning girls away from pimps. Instead, they are about cars and materials things. "Pimp" is undergoing one hell of a PR spin these days. Hustle and Flow aids in this. Remember, pimps are not heroes. They are amongst the lowest forms of scumbags. And we certainly don't want a film showing the world of prostitution as heroic or a way to get a record deal.