Something New doesn't try as hard to be funny like the other recent Black woman/White guy love story Guess Who. The humor isn't slapstick and both sides are shown respectively. Instead this film devotes to showing realistic challenges of interracial dating experienced on both sides of the color spectrum; however, more so from a professional Black woman in contemporary US society, a rare Hollywood perspective. It includes her frustrations of perceived racism at the work and the "Black tax" Afro-Americans must pay in effort to be as successful as their Caucasians colleagues. I can understand why her love interest wouldn't be able to relate and growing weary of this complaint if she kept bringing it up.
I didn't know about the elegant rites-of-passage ceremony (called a cotillion) before this movie and learned more about the history of the Afro-Am version afterwards from a friend.
I didn't know about the elegant rites-of-passage ceremony (called a cotillion) before this movie and learned more about the history of the Afro-Am version afterwards from a friend.