Finally, there is a movie which is supposed to show black professionals without racism as they maneuver their way through meaningful relationships and feel dejection, etc.
While this sounds quite good, the picture soon falls into the trap of black stereotyping. Yes, there is Morris Chestnut playing a doctor, who goes for therapy sessions when he can't find and make meaningful relationships with women. D.L. Hughley reaffirms the black stereotyping of a man who married because he got his girlfriend pregnant.
Getting back to Chestnut, he soon discovers that his newest love once had a fling with his father. The latter is now divorced from the mother.
We have black professionals finding their way into typical black stereotyping by the profanity they use, the girlfriend of one going berserk and shooting up her boyfriend's apartment, and the divorce of Chestnut's parents. We also have a black attorney admonished by his former girlfriend, now a judge, because he has ended their prior relationship.
Why must the writers of these kind of films fall into the traps that they do?
While this sounds quite good, the picture soon falls into the trap of black stereotyping. Yes, there is Morris Chestnut playing a doctor, who goes for therapy sessions when he can't find and make meaningful relationships with women. D.L. Hughley reaffirms the black stereotyping of a man who married because he got his girlfriend pregnant.
Getting back to Chestnut, he soon discovers that his newest love once had a fling with his father. The latter is now divorced from the mother.
We have black professionals finding their way into typical black stereotyping by the profanity they use, the girlfriend of one going berserk and shooting up her boyfriend's apartment, and the divorce of Chestnut's parents. We also have a black attorney admonished by his former girlfriend, now a judge, because he has ended their prior relationship.
Why must the writers of these kind of films fall into the traps that they do?