i will admit and i do not even want to see this movie after read the synopsis . i could tell right off the bat it be go to be one of those movie ( you all know what i be talk about ) . well i get pressure into it by a group of woman who all think it be so real and raw and emotional and be share tissue to wipe their tear while i sit there think really . i pay for this . i could have go to oakland and watched people beat on each other and curse each other out and it would have have the same effect . and that not what i like to do for entertainment . i find the whole thing to be almost cartoonish and the story pointless and and the character bland and bore . i get it . there be people and in this case poor black people and who have terrible life . but honestly and when this movie be do all i could think be that i be so over the whole black thing . over it . i be not a prejudice person and i try so very hard to ignore some of the stereotype that play out all around me every day and think that people be people and intelligence be intelligence and everyone have the ability to be a decent person but this movie want to blow that idea all to hell . it make me feel like there be group of people and sub culture and city even and that we should just wipe off the face of the earth because there will never be enough program or charity or money to dig them out of the hole they put themselves in and they be just go to drag society down with them . and apparently it a hole they do not even want to get out of . bah . i do not write movie review and i have never write one before and but this be awful . i be neither impressed with the acting or the story or the writing and i can not for the live of me figure out why it get such rave review and except may by people who equate gritty with genius because they do not know anything about the world and want to feel hip . or because oprah have something to do with it .