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The Trigger Effect (1996)
People go crazy easy
People do things that are considered crazy all the time in normal functioning society, with all the comforts that come with it and make life more bearable. Someone pisses you off? Ah, to hell with it, you go and have a nice cold one, turn on the TV, and watch seinfeld deliver sugarcoated antisocial commentary resonating perfectly with your state of mind. But what if you couldn't have a cold one, couldn't see your TV friend agree with you, and would have to face the events of the day much earlier as the nightly electrical distractions become unavailable? Then you have "the trigger effect". Many people find it far fetched, conceived, self-indulgent, frivolous. They do so out of their air-conditioned apartment, eating ready-made microwave popcorn, downloading music for free and waiting for the pizza guy to arrive.
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Why does it stir so much controversy?
It's simply a formulaic romantic drama of heartache and such that would have welcomed vivica fox warmheartedly. The only thing that possibly differs it from other works of such carachter are the somewhat badly timed comedic moments. And of course the portrayal of a black carachter by a white actor, who also is responsible for writing.
The man is not a genius, he simply copies from and builds using textbook examples and situations other black writers have copied from and used before, the fact that he does it and is white is nothing commendable, unless you assume that black people come from the planet blackaton and it takes a masterful expert in exo-anthropology to understand them. Which if you do, makes you a cretin and probably infatuated by this mediocre TV drama.