She Hate Me

Spike Lee's film is about many things. It's an interesting film as most of his films are, but he's losing his Spike Lee charm. His earlier films were tight, strong and worked well. His later films are trying to center on too many subjects at one time and sometimes subjects he doesn't know a lot about. Singleton I felt did the same thing with his film Higher Learning.

In She Hate Me (It's ebonics) we get the same theme that plays in most of Spike's films, racial tension. Not just black and white, but black and black. We see the struggle between those with money and those without. The film deals with doing the right thing in one instance and doing the wrong thing in another. Sometime the wrong thing just feels right. It shows that each individual has a good and bad side. Whether it be money or love, we struggle with what is a person to do.

The main focus of the film is a young corporate executive, used to living a certain lifestyle. He loses his job and he is offered a proposition so that his life doesn't have to change and he takes it. It's a difficult transition when you have to go to making X amount of dollars to nothing at all. Especially if you aren't prepared. The new career of Jack Henry Armstrong is to be a sperm donor to lesbians. There's humor here and Spike tries to deal with the reversal of men treating women like sex objects, but it fall short. (I remember an interesting television show called All That Glitters, that was TV before its time.) There are some hints of Woody Allen's everything you always wanted to know about sex. There's some insight on many things, and some stuff no one may want to know or see. The talents of many actors are lost here in the film. Local actor Anthony Mackie stars in the lead with Kerry Washington and the cast of Spike Lee regulars. Spike's sister Joie, Lonette McKee, Ossie Davis and John Tuturo to name a few.

We all get into the political arena with insight into the Watergate scandal and talks of Enron, etc. Spike is an artist and he voices his opinion as he knows best, in film. Give the film a look see, you might learn something if not you'll have a few laughs. Thanks for stopping by, keep an open mind.