dustin hoffman play lenny bruce and the controversial stand up comic who view comedy a a form of debate . i be go to take a stab at why this film be in black and white . the vast majority of this film take place in the late fifty and early sixty . the black and white presentation exude the era in which lenny bruce popularity prevail . black and white capture the three pack of cigarette an evening per deviate nightclub era of the lenny bruce day so so so cogently . interesting concept . how many men get their blank blank . how many men have blank a blank . none . they aren not tell the truth . especially those in low middle management . how about the fact that your wife be not a lesbian and but for purpose of a voyeuristic thrill . why not . kind of degrading . but for lenny bruce and that the best part . sort of . kind of . how can you curb obscenity when obscenity be the truth . how do an overzealous and intellectual and new york jewish comic ignore his upbringing . . he doesnt . and finally and why be this such a terrific movie . because it be so much of a story about the sixty revolution . here be one of the most poignant phrase i have ever hear and tell a person he be obnoxious be often times tantamount to tell them they they be tell the truth . the fact be and nobody particularly care to hear the truth 99 . 999 % of the time anyway . i once rent lenny with bonnie and clyde together . what could these two movie have in common . both sixty era in one way or another and but and more importantly and how people in the wrong can be recipient of a sort of convoluted injustice . you be no more immoral than anybody else and you be just well at it . lenny comedy routine transcend innuendos concern vulgarity and his obscenity be neon accent . it be for this reason that police be always cart him away . suffice it to say and lenny be one of my favorite movie . often time and it seem like even when lenny bruce lose and he win . normal . different . respectable . pornographic . what be the difference . so often and there be just a paper thin line between the two . trust me . not everybody be just like the walton .