Charles Watts (Michael Green) is having a small celebration in his Central West apartment over the Nobel Prize he won for his book "Eyes of Peace." We meet his wife Nina (Wendy Joy Franklin) and another couple Eric (Jay Nickerson) and Jennifer (Tracey Newirth). They show us their public pretentious face and I was close to turning off the feature. The next person we meet is a homeless man named Terrance (John Marshall Jones-director) who breaks into their comfort zone as he is an old friend of Charles.
The film grew as it discussed the "black issues" of the day while entertaining us with humor and drama in a one room play. It was actually shot on stage in front of a live audience so the sound has an echo...not as crisp as a TP stage production. The twist was expected and often used. The movie seemed to imply there is a great white conspiracy out there to make black people feel inferior which is at the root of all of their problems. On the down side,the film offers no solutions other than to blow up history.
The film goes from entertaining to being preachy as we get to hear the proverbial angry black man rail against the system of oppression. It could have been called "Eldridge Cleaver's SOUL ON ICE for Dummies" for a few minutes as JMJ rails, he summarizes the themes and asks people if they are angry at the point of a gun. I honestly didn't feel uncomfortable or angry during the climax scene...and that was what the film should have done.
All in all it was entertaining.
The film grew as it discussed the "black issues" of the day while entertaining us with humor and drama in a one room play. It was actually shot on stage in front of a live audience so the sound has an echo...not as crisp as a TP stage production. The twist was expected and often used. The movie seemed to imply there is a great white conspiracy out there to make black people feel inferior which is at the root of all of their problems. On the down side,the film offers no solutions other than to blow up history.
The film goes from entertaining to being preachy as we get to hear the proverbial angry black man rail against the system of oppression. It could have been called "Eldridge Cleaver's SOUL ON ICE for Dummies" for a few minutes as JMJ rails, he summarizes the themes and asks people if they are angry at the point of a gun. I honestly didn't feel uncomfortable or angry during the climax scene...and that was what the film should have done.
All in all it was entertaining.
