The tag-line for this movie in no way does justice to this superb look at the not so ghetto-fabulous world of Fresh. There is portrayal without judgement that does not demonise black people, black men, Fresh or his sister. What is supremely enchanting about Fresh is the spirit of love that survives under such precarious conditions. Fresh's determination to leave the drug culture behind and take his sister with him, masks the fact that he is only a child. He is the only male to tell his sister that she is loved. We only see his vulnerability and pain at the very end, facing a father who does not know how to hold his own child.
This is the best film I have seen in a long time. It is not clichéd and avoids a minefield of ghetto stereotypes. Drug and gang culture is not glorified but realised as real and tragic. For all y'all Menace II Society and New Jack City lovers or haters you have to see this... you might learn something.
This is the best film I have seen in a long time. It is not clichéd and avoids a minefield of ghetto stereotypes. Drug and gang culture is not glorified but realised as real and tragic. For all y'all Menace II Society and New Jack City lovers or haters you have to see this... you might learn something.