` our song give u the life of the three teenager lanisha and maria and joycelyn best girlfriend hang at the end of summer . adolescent summer even if we do not know the signal and landmark of this particular terrain and crown height and brooklyn be or be the same for u all . a lazy respite from the pressure and tumult of school . welcome heat and idleness . but if this experience of adolescence be universal and the inner city of the 90 be a different place than most of u know maybe a foreign a country a any . young body carve new silhouette . beckon new territory . the maze towards adulthood . the young mind come into itself and speak for itself and say this be who i be and this be who i want to try to be . it be or be always thus . but this be how it play out in brooklyn in the late 90 . jim mckay be the writer or director of this film project but he acknowledge all who have shout suggestion at him . the opening title slide ` a film by seem to list everyone in the universe . it a gesture but by the end of the film and we know it to be a genuine one . [ the closing title also have some of the most on the money and appreciative credit i have read . ] the vivid sound record by jan mclaughlin deserve to be especially note . mckay a modest leader who know who be tell this story it his three grace lanisha and maria and joycelyn . theyre the real thing and their interaction have the fire of real friendship and the focus of reality . this ain not no music video shorthand telling of teenage life . it have the seriousness of the long unblinking stare . hang out with them and we do not quite feel included but we do feel privilege to be listen in . these be real voice speak with plainness about the crisis and dullness of daily life . we be witness to the modern math of teenage life how it problem be interpret and calculate and sum and solve . small scene illustrate large thought throughout . lanisha hang with her dad at his security job it the only way she get to spend time with him . we see the love that exist between them but also the failure of family and fatherhood . in a connected scene and lanisha defend her dad to her mom and and we see how desperately she need to love them both and for them to love her in return . later and the three friend lay in the dark share vision and dream and we remember how crazy or funny kid be and more tragically and how realism hammer idealism these day . and at the end and maria simply walk down the street be a short story in itself . we see her gather up the courage to hold all her fear and doubt at bay . she demonstrate for u the strength one need to have to be able to embrace the fragility that make life livable . ` our song great gift be that we really feel deeply the terribly ephemeral nature of friendship how and one day and alive and enliven and that intimacy can and in the next and just turn and drift away . it awful and but that just the way it be and isn not it .