A coming of age comedy/drama for the post hip hop generation.
Malcolm is a geek, carefully surviving life in The Bottoms, a tough
neighborhood in Inglewood, CA filled with gangsters and drug dealers, while
juggling his senior year of college applications, interviews and the SAT. His
dream is to attend Harvard. A chance invitation to a big underground party
leads Malcolm and his friends into an "only in Los Angeles" gritty
adventure filed with offbeat characters and bad choices. If Malcolm can
persevere, he'll go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being
himself. (Courtesy of Internet Movie Database).
DOPE is Directed and Written by Rick Famuyiwa produced by Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forrest
Whitaker. This is the type of film I’d like to make, the coming of age story
with a character that develops overtime on screen. The pace of DOPE was a
combination of A+B+C storytelling with a bit of character voiceover to fill the
more finite details and character nuances. This film was shot in a
straightforward manner with moments of stylistic camera movements. It was a
believable story with much character development with the main character
getting the idyllic resolution, which maybe typical of many coming of age
stories. I gave DOPE 5 stars, as it held all the things I enjoy in a film
story, character development, style, and a resolution that fits the message
being delivered.
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