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This is an interesting attempt with better acting than some daytime television. The problem is not the acting, necessarily. It is the details that surround everything. The military shows up, and the fellow says he is a colonel. His rank shows him to be a SFC. There is no unit patch, no name tag. These are just uniforms picked up before being issued. Very basic. Soldiers don't wear covers, just wander around. Things just don't match up with the show. There are parts where you could excuse it, and say it's a kids movie, but the lack of effort is so obvious. They just seem to have gone down to the local Michael's store to buy equipment for the scenes. Just too many holes. I have seen worse (Trollz), but this is a low.

I apologize. This is an Australian film, which actually makes more sense. The bad attempt at American dialect, the subpar acting, the storyline that doesn't hold together. If you've watched Australian mermaid movies on Netflix, this is right in line.

This film is the definitive book on the creation of masculinity. This film defined it for me when I first saw it in high school. Now, when I try to help others understand performance, I go back to this for men, and "Mona Lisa Smile" for modern feminism. I regret not taking the chance to pick up a parking meter head that a woman was selling at a garage sale. What better inside secret that I am a "Luke" fan. Luke becomes Christlike. This was an interesting prism to look at the film through when teaching at a religious school. It also speaks to the culture that crated it, in the 1960s. Another film that everyone should take time to watch.

This film, contrary to the title, is not a letter to white people. This is a view in to the inner conversations that take place in black culture. As a white man, I am not normally privy to these conversations. Many people with my pigment feel that black culture is a singular being (odd, since white is clearly not a singular culture). This is a conversation between blacks about where they belong as a minority culture in a white society. The movie has some interesting talking points, and should be credited with attempting to start a conversation on race. I don't think it took hold enough. The movie is an outgrowth of Morgan Freeman's character in "Glory", when he grabs Denzel Washington and gets in his face, "Who you calling. . . There white boys out there dying. . . " Take time to watch it, and listen to how a group talks to itself. If you are white, it isn't a story against you. The conversation isn't about harming you. it is about black people trying to understand what being black means post Civil Rights. There is no loss in not being a part of the conversation. This film is absolutely no threat to me.