This film doesn't deserve a 1/10. It's well shot and, in very few instances, well acted, but many of the performances are simply subpar.
The second biggest problem with this film is the lousy screenplay. Just about every scene is written to try to shoehorn the plot and the characters, but it's so awkwardly done. The characters and the situations they get into are so beyond implausible and they flow out so unnaturally.
The main character's first gay experience with his best friend is something you would only see in a Hollywood movie. It wasn't even remotely plausible or sentimental or reflective of teens coming to understand their sexuality. It was shoehorned in. But in Hollywood, if it's about homosexuality, we have to give it brownie points for trying. That's all that matters to them and the critics.
But here's the biggest problem with the film: if you're going to make a film that's totally implausible and overall mediocre acting, you have to at least make it interesting. This film is boring. And there's not even close to enough quality art direction to make up for that.
It's a slow film that's poorly done, but all that matters to the academy and Hollywood folk is that it's about a gay black kid with a crackhead mama. That's enough for them to drool all over it and call it the best thing ever made.
The second biggest problem with this film is the lousy screenplay. Just about every scene is written to try to shoehorn the plot and the characters, but it's so awkwardly done. The characters and the situations they get into are so beyond implausible and they flow out so unnaturally.
The main character's first gay experience with his best friend is something you would only see in a Hollywood movie. It wasn't even remotely plausible or sentimental or reflective of teens coming to understand their sexuality. It was shoehorned in. But in Hollywood, if it's about homosexuality, we have to give it brownie points for trying. That's all that matters to them and the critics.
But here's the biggest problem with the film: if you're going to make a film that's totally implausible and overall mediocre acting, you have to at least make it interesting. This film is boring. And there's not even close to enough quality art direction to make up for that.
It's a slow film that's poorly done, but all that matters to the academy and Hollywood folk is that it's about a gay black kid with a crackhead mama. That's enough for them to drool all over it and call it the best thing ever made.