whiteboys, where to start with you? let's see here. first off: this film was a really great idea, and seeing as how it came out in 1999 i have to say it's ahead of it's time. in today's world where hip hop and rap rule the radio stations and kids strive as hard as they can to be "street" this film portrays that and portrays is pretty accurately.
three farm boys who long to be more than farm boys, a story that has been seen before in movies like "a river runs through it" where a rural boy grows up and chooses to be a journalist but still keeps in tough with his roots. but this takes that idea, and skews it. it takes the idea and twists it in such a way that the viewer is left thinking that the director is racist, and the movie is stupid. and yet the story of kids growing up on the farm and leaving their rural roots is a story that is played over and over again, and never once really turned in such a way as this. the film takes pop culture, transposes it on these three boys, and then lets them loose. and so they ride about sippin 40's and wearing fubu. selling fake cocaine to people in night clubs and just trying to be as close to "high rollas" or "big pimps" as they can. and the fact is the characters really do show some real rapping talent and show that they can "bust a flow" but at the same time the film shows how awkward these teens are and how alientated they are in a world of trucks, and cornfields these three wear baggy pants and long to drive blinged out tractors.
the film. though it is seemingly a comedy, to me seems to be so much more than that. it seems to be a lot deeper than just a simple comedy and puts forth a story that albeit sounds pretty dumb and even is pretty dumb at first glance is really much, much deeper than just a simple comedy, and much, much deeper than the typical "break away from the farm and follow your dreams" transcendentalistic stuff that is seen in so many other films. in the end i think whiteboys is a great movie, and is terribly underrated.
three farm boys who long to be more than farm boys, a story that has been seen before in movies like "a river runs through it" where a rural boy grows up and chooses to be a journalist but still keeps in tough with his roots. but this takes that idea, and skews it. it takes the idea and twists it in such a way that the viewer is left thinking that the director is racist, and the movie is stupid. and yet the story of kids growing up on the farm and leaving their rural roots is a story that is played over and over again, and never once really turned in such a way as this. the film takes pop culture, transposes it on these three boys, and then lets them loose. and so they ride about sippin 40's and wearing fubu. selling fake cocaine to people in night clubs and just trying to be as close to "high rollas" or "big pimps" as they can. and the fact is the characters really do show some real rapping talent and show that they can "bust a flow" but at the same time the film shows how awkward these teens are and how alientated they are in a world of trucks, and cornfields these three wear baggy pants and long to drive blinged out tractors.
the film. though it is seemingly a comedy, to me seems to be so much more than that. it seems to be a lot deeper than just a simple comedy and puts forth a story that albeit sounds pretty dumb and even is pretty dumb at first glance is really much, much deeper than just a simple comedy, and much, much deeper than the typical "break away from the farm and follow your dreams" transcendentalistic stuff that is seen in so many other films. in the end i think whiteboys is a great movie, and is terribly underrated.