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Originally posted by prayerfull
We bought the DVD last night and watched it. I'm trippin' off the fact that Halle won an Oscar for this performance. Yes, she did very well. However, I'm not seeing anything that was just so amazingly spectacular about it. It was a good movie - a bit odd at the end. I'm also trippin' off the fact that that dude went out and gave 'ole girl a car and named his gas station after her after one little freak session. I was looking for more in the ending...perhaps Halle's character becoming a bit more mentally stable with her "new" life.
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i finally saw the movie with my husband last night. over all i thought it was a good movie. i like intense movies and this by far was one of the most intense films i have seen. i liked the fact that there was less dialogue than normal so you really had to watch the film. i see how and why eric benet could have been upset with halle over the sex scenes. the first one was really a bit much but contrary to the opinions of others that i have read, it was not a random scene.
to those of you that saw it did you all catch how he was eating the chocolate ice cream with a white plastic spoon and how leticia was written in black against a white background...serious innuendo!!! i took it as 'ol boy having a serious thing for black women in general but because of his upbringing, he couldn't live out he true desires; aside from the fact that he was just COMPLETELY TURNED OUT
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i can see how some folks may feel that this was a stereotypical movie in which the white man rescues the black woman, but the way the movie was carried out, everything was all circumstantial (sp?)
i found the ending to be lacking and i could quite understand her facial expressions. was she angry?? was she going to kill him?? i was hoping that she would go off on him or something but it was kinda left out there dangling. the dialogue b/w the 2 would have been extremely important, i think.
'splitting the oak???'
, i personally would have killed the old man.