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Today's film was a new version of an old genré.

Exploitation films focus on an audience and go over the top. It used to be the black spy thing. The more unlikely the better. Now, here, it is the teen geek.

Dope (2015)

It got very mixed reviews. I am not sure why I ordered it.

A young black man seeks to leave the ghetto and attend Harvard.

Yes.

Right there we have some clues to the film's message.

The kid is a geek and does not mix in.

But in the process of getting involved with some dope dealers and gang bangers he somehow manages a whole string of crazy situations through which he survives.

He even cuts his hair down from a neat square afro to a Harvard acceptable cut.

It is all kind of whacky and occasionally funny but always a little phony and contrived.

I had to skip with the FF so that kills the rating. It would be a 1 out of Netflix5.

Now. Again. Why did I rent this? Dunno.

Labels: films