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Attempt to deal 'frankly' with race in America. Set in a mixed race college somewhere the film included a good cast, snappy pace, good production values...but...
I found this to be heavy-handed, shrill, not realistic at all. Every sentence, nearly every word centered on race in one sense or another. It reminded me of the first native American made/sponsored film back in the 80's - every single joke and reference there was about them. But nobody talks or lives like that.
The characters here were devices for mouthing the polemics. One character sort of had a back story but even that was distant, phone-only. The hook-ups, sexual relationships they managed to pack in were just confusing. We weren't given enough time with the characters to make us care who they were screwing.
Sheldon (Spike) Lee tried a similar thing in School Daze. He failed too. Maybe we should just calm down and try to talk this out...honestly but without all the shouting.
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