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10047741 No.10047741 [Reply] [Original]

This is the most /fa/ movie I've sever seen.

>> No.10047742

>>10047741
jesus christ can I just return to fa without cringing once.

>> No.10047747

This isen't shown on the cinema in my country, and most of Europe I think.

>> No.10047759

Are there any torrents yet? Where can I watch it online?

>> No.10047762

>>10047759

I didn't see any just now.

>> No.10047833

>>10047741
>geek

>> No.10047856

The outdated title for the Sundance Film Festival hit Dope demonstrates today’s cultural retardation about race. Its story of a black high-school student, Malcolm (Shameik Moore), who wants to escape his California ghetto environment by selling drugs and going to Harvard, trades on a checklist of politically correct clichés: 1) a protagonist named after a political icon, 2) his black single-parent home, 3) his ethnically and sexually diverse Latino and lesbian best friends, 4) his gangbanging environment, 5) his drug-dealing antagonists, 6) nostalgic pop hits as musical score, and 7) Obama-worship.

Yet Dope isn’t caught up in cultural anxiety, like last year’s Sundance favorite, Dear White People. Famuyiwa simply takes a comic approach to problems that still plague black Americans; he placates the mainstream audience, which is more than willing to both appropriate black culture and sentimentalize its social pain. This is the most egregious exploitation. Famuyiwa’s terrible ADHD plot structure introduces tragic characters, then drops them with no follow-through: Rakim Mayers plays Dom, a Denzel-style sexy thug; Roger Guenveur Smith does a wild-eyed monologue as Jacoby, a corrupt community activist; and Chanel Iman, as his drug-crazed daughter, Lily, seduces virginal Malcolm, then goes on a vomiting, urinating binge (she’s a Noah Baumbach gamine except she’s not white).

Given how Famuyiwa manipulates expectations about contemporary black lives, it’s no surprise to see Malcolm chase after the Harvard University carrot while also pursuing cute criminality. When Obama-aspiring Malcolm finally dons a Trayvon Martin hoodie, Famuyiwa mixes his metaphors unacceptably. It’s hard to imagine a worse social comedy than Dope appearing this year.

>> No.10047865

this movie really seems like the kind that would've released in the early 2000s

>> No.10047875

>>10047856
why would you analyze such a popcorn movie so deeply

i don't understand why /tv/ feels the need to overthink literally every blockbuster movie

>> No.10047886

>>10047856
I hope you don't cook your food with this much salt

>> No.10047930

>>10047886
>ded

>> No.10047931

typical libturd shit, as un/fa/ as I can imagine
fuck off

>> No.10047955

>>10047875

because muh /pol/

>> No.10047962

>>10047955
that's a black critic's response

>> No.10048697

Malcolm's clothes are perfect

>> No.10048717

>>10047759
Just Google "watch Dope"

>> No.10048821

>>10047875
/tv/ just wants an excuse to undermine black people

>> No.10048853

>>10048717
all scams, dude

>> No.10048864

That's nice honey.

>> No.10048904

>>10048821
how is that analysis undermining black people when it's criticizing the movie for exploiting black people?

also why shouldn't someone analyze a movie that was shown at a film festival? i feel like that gives people all the more reason to analyze it.

>> No.10048939

>>10048904
I'm not talking about whatever bizarre motivations Armand White had, I'm talking about why so many /tv/ posters are posting that review as if it's some kind of "foolproof response" to the film.

>> No.10048960

>>10048939
oh
i'd imagine it's because most of the people who post it are completely unable to analyze a film effectively so they'd rather just spam someone else's analysis for no reason other than it sounds well-written to them

>> No.10048962
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>>10047741
>calling non-opiate substances ''dope''

>> No.10048969

>>10048962
Drugs play a large part in the films plot, it's a double entendre

>> No.10050728

>>10048962
Watch the movie

>> No.10050739
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10050739

>mfw he doesn't think American Psycho is the most /fa/ film

>> No.10050758

>>10047741
Didn't even know this came out. Straight to DVD?

>> No.10050861

>>10050758
Came out a week ago, in theaters now.

>> No.10050889

>>10047856
and people think sjw's cant be racist, this post is RITE

>> No.10050894

>>10050739
Is that an Armani?

>> No.10050896

>>10050739
not him, but Trainspotting holds that title

>> No.10050899

last night i downloaded and watched that documentary about the fashion industry (the true cost" or whatever. i turned it off after about 20 minutes, shit was boring. i honestly dont give a shit about factory conditions in bangladesh or whatever. lol. as long as i can have my sick fits

>> No.10050917

Dope is far and away one of the best movies of the year, doubling as a celebration of geeks of color from across the spectrum and an insightful look into the lives of said geeks in Inglewood, CA, but there’s much more to what makes this one of my new personal favorites. Blerds and geeky people of color (PoC) don’t have many role models in media who aren’t automatic targets of ridicule, but in Malcolm (Shameik Moore), Diggy (Kiersey Clemons), and Jib (Tony Revolori), Dope has found three for the ages.

Let’s gauge exactly where these three fall on the spectrum. They’re straight A brainiacs who are obsessed with 90s hip-hop culture, play in their own punk band, carry walkmans and vintage-era Game Boys while riding around Inglewood on bikes, so they push their way past Urkel status and move into a strata all their own. The trio winds up stuck with a bag full of drugs when Malcolm’s bag is swapped out for Dom’s (A$AP Rocky), and what do they do with it? They sell it using BitCoin. You really can’t get much geekier than that, and the film uses this knowledge to its advantage in ways that got a bit too real for me.
Dope is a great film for a multitude of other reasons, don't get me wrong.

The cast is superb, the soundtrack bangs, and as coming-of-age flicks go, it's one of the funniest of all-time (including one hell of a bad drug trip about halfway through). But it's crowning achievement comes in the form of representation; Malcolm, Diggy, and Jib are simply allowed to be. They experience the latter side of puberty, awkwardly work their way through conversations with girls, get pushed around by bullies, deal with white people who freely use the N-word, come up with a plan, and have one hell of an adventure together - and they do it as fully fleshed out characters, not just stereotypes. For once in this kind of movie, the PoC characters aren't relegated to supporting duty, steeped in lowest common denominator stereotypes.

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>>10050899
>lol guys look how uncompassionate i am

>> No.10052420

>>10050917
>geeks of color

stopped reading there

>> No.10052430

>>10050896
lol trainspotting is so overrated