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Release Date: 03 July, 2001 Retail Price: $14.94 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.95! Cast: Complete Cast (18 total) |
Higher Learning Reviews
Singleton-ed out.
Singleton lightens up on the militantism and anti-establishment attitude that plagued so much of Boyz N Da Hood. Boyz was a microscopic view of the world, while Higher Learning is a macroscopic view.
My favorite storyline was Kristy Swanson's. While watching an HBO special of this years ago, Singleton said he wanted a "REAL" white girl to play the role of Kristen. He proceeded to tell the story about how on one day he was wearing a Malcolm X shirt and Kristy Swanson asked him was that himself on the shirt. She got the role. She should have gotten poked in the eye instead, but anyway...
Tyra Banks is good in this and so is Michael Rappaport.
Ice Cube spits knowledge about the enslavement and oppression of blacks, yet he comes off more as a bully than a deep thinker and distributor of wisdom. He gets off intimidating his white neighbors by purposely playing his music too loudly, then acts threateningly when confronted about it, or about anything. Busta Rhymes is here to utter "white boy!" a few times and to whip a little "white boy" butt. Other than that, he's useless. And this is my one big complaint about the film: the behavior and thoughts of the black characters are at times just as bigoted and reprehensible as the white characters' yet, Singleton makes it clear they should not be judged as problematic or troubling, but as misunderstood or justified actions and thoughts of angry black people who have a right to bully people just because the world isn't fair to them.
The film doesn't deliver on everything it sets out to do, but its heart is in the right place.
Verry Powerful movie
This is one of my favorite Jhon Singleton Movies. This Movie is Better than I expected, I thought it would be like Do the right thing but it was much better. Omar Epps, Tyra Banks, Lawrence Fishburn, Michael Rapaport, and Regina King did a great job in this movie too.
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