this film be a move investigation of south central la from the perspective of an opportunist music director who use his street credibility in order to penetrate black inner city life and not get shot . you can read the other review to see what the movie do well . it aesthetically please and emotionally move ( thanks to appropriate musical cue ) and etc . however and there be moment within this potentially progressive film that take 100 plus year of black freedom and flush it down the toilet . do anyone not see a problem with open up a film portray black clown a community hero . black fight for decade to rid themselves of the stigma of the minstrel of the clown . it be unsettle for me to know that while sit in the theater i be suppose to and in the spirit of the film and be move by these former gangster story story of be save from the street by clown . i suppose history be merely repeat itself and once again and the black man can only rize from oppression if he take on the role of the public fool . my other problem with this film occur midway through the film during the montage of krumping . lachappelle interview a krumper name dragon who state ( and i be paraphrase ) that krumping ( the street version of clown ) be something that we do because we can and because we be make to do it we be bear to do it . immediately follow the statement and we be bear to do it and lachappelle launch into a montage sequence where he juxtapose flash of men and woman krumping with found footage of naked african men in face paint and loincloth ( hold spear and nonetheless ) engage in tribal dance technique quite similar to the interspersed krumping move . but the cut be so fast that any isolated krumping movement could easily be view a similar to the dance of the primitive african tribal member . in this moment and i literally felt sick . be lachappelle try to draw the parallel between 21st century black dancer in inner city ghetto and to primitive tribal african ( who be probably film for a national geographic special . ) lachappelle and be you say that black men have the cross continental genetic disposition of primitive tribal dance . give lachappelle the benefit of the doubt and i will write this off a a careless decision . while grant and there very well may be element of traditional african tribal dance in krumping and clown and this connection need to be further explore through either interview or a good ethnographic investigation . a be and i merely felt second hand embarrass and horror at the visual connection the director actually make . my last complaint that i feel most people be overlook be that this film should have move u emotionally without the musical cue . music that speak for the film and instead of footage that speak for itself and be lazy film making . lachappelle take the easy way out several time in this film and and ruin many moment that would be good leave silent ( also and there be no need for the overdub of amazing grace and either . sometimes raw be well ) . but still and i do contend that this film be a must see . at the very least and you will learn something . yet you can not leave this film without acknowledge that inner city youth need a way out . lachappelle cross dangerous territory in leave u feel like maybe and just maybe and all of these kid will be ok. and that just not true .