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I JUST TOOK IT FOR WHAT IT IS...
I've read the reviews of "Baby Boy"-the 2001 John Singleton film-
and came to see that many of them portrayed the movie as sterotypical and predictible.Well,I'm sorry but I didn't see
"Baby Boy" like that.I felt that it was a honest,well-directed
film that explored many "touchy" issues.I mean,it's basically a
vivid coming of age movie...except it's set in the hood of South Central L.A.Just like Singleton's 1991 breakthrough debut,"Boyz
N The Hood"(note:this is NOT a sequel).

"Baby Boy" tells the story of Jody,played by model/singer Tyrese
Gibson(whose strong performance proves that (some) singers can actually act),a young Black male in South Central with no job,
no direction,and no real self-pride(come on,he lives with his mother!-whose 36!).He's a job-less twenty-year-old with two children by two different woman.And he and his mother's
boyfriend-played by Ving Rhames- bump heads many times in the film.(Rhames' charcter is actually a former wife-beater/
ex-convict).And basically the story goes on from there...well,
not really.But I didn't really write this review to tell the entire plot of "Baby Boy",but rather to voice my opinion on "Baby Boy"'s images.

STEROTYPICAL is a term I hear a lot when people bring up "Baby
Boy".Well,I mean they have a point.A Black man with no job,no life,and no real life skills...Is this "Amos & Andy" or a film
made in 2001? And the Black woman in the film are protrayed as
dependants and somewhat shallow.They'd let a man talk down to them,cheat on them,and/or hit them BUT if the sex is right-all is
forgiven.And again,the Black men in the movie are very unflattering.One may conclude that they are lazy,shuffless
thugs.It would be nice to have more rounded,diverse protrayals of
Black men around in films.

Yet while I can see where the nay-sayers are coming from in a way I also don't feel offended by "Baby Boy".To Singleton's credit,the characters are never turned into carictures.
They're humans.And they never come off exgrated-unlike other
movies set in a "hood" environment."Baby Boy" is a stroy estienally(sp.) we all can relate to -in ways.
"Baby Boy" is deeper than an ordinary "hood" flick.In a lot of ways it seems like "Baby Boy" is more of an observation than
a statement.In that respect,I don't find the movie's
characterizations to be that negative.

All in all,I feel that "Baby Boy" is showing a diversity in black images.Yes,I love films like "Best Man" and "love jones"
and the like BUT all brothers and sisters DON'T live like that and so I feel that they should be represented as well.

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Sad, But The Truth
This movie is truthful. As much as we would hate to believe it, but relationships with your parents and your significant other is just like that with most people. There's usually always drama With urban people. Not to say that it's not that way with suburban people, but for some reason we "urban folks" almost always make the news. Anyhow Tyrese did a good job as Jody and I was quite suprised. He potrayed a lazy son, a decietful baby's daddy and a young man who had somewhat of a desire to do better, just caught up in temptation. His mother Addrienne Joi Johnson did a fair job, she looked rather young to be his mom, but isn't that truly the way it is. She didn't seem very supportive as a mom, but her part was to give some advice and to stand her ground on having a man in her life played by Ving Rhames. Tyrese main girl Taraji P. Henson did an excellent job playing her part as his baby's mom and the girl he truly cared for. We as women feel just like she did when it comes to a man we love, we want them to do right by us and if they dont, we express ourselves. We want them to leave if they cant act right, but we give them numerous chances to straighten up. This movie has numerous sex scenes, violence and profanity, not for the little ones it's truly an adult film. This movies has a pleasant ending. Check it out!

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Tales of the ghetto
Bbaby bOY WAS BOUT 21 YEAR OLD JODI WHO CAN'T MAKE A LIVING AND IS LIVING AT HIS MOM'S CRIB. hE DISLIKES HIS MOMS NEW BOYFRIND BUT HIM AND HIS FRIEND P STICK AROUND. P is a killer who wants a job and takes one by Jodi and fails. He makes a bad choice when Jodi gets jumped by breaking jaws and whipping young kids. When Snoop Dogg gets home to Jodi's Girlfriend Yvette he tries to get revenge on Jodi after a phone call in jail. Him and his crrew do a drive-by but P ends up killing them.