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Look at me. I'm a non-rascist!
This is pure simplistic preachy garbage along similar lines as Disney's 'Remember the Titans'. Just a little more edgy but still the same cotton candy 'rascism is bad' message done up all super sugary for your consumption.

First things first, Halle Berry really reveals the blatant charade she was playing about not wanting to do nudity when negotiating 2 million dollars to briefly flash her breasts in Swordfish. She shows as much as she can without it becoming a porn film in Monster's ball in a very explicit sex scene with Billy Bob Thorton and all with no reservations or shyness whatsoever.

Great suspension of belief is required as Leticia unknowingly falls in love to the man who executed her husband for whatever crime he was convicted of.

Of course, Billy Bob comes with the baggage of racial prejudiced culture and family. And typical fashion for these types of movies, they are brought together by circumstances and learn not only to tolerate but to truly care for each other.

It all comes so easy for the gorgeous Halle Berry and the hideous Billy Bob. One minute Billy Bob is harassing black neighbor kids because they are black. The next he is in love with a black woman.

And as easy as the prejudices disintegrate, the prejudices reimerge and cause problems. This is the most insulting aspect of this movie.

Leticia and BBT (whatever his character name was) are now in love and Leticia comes to visit ole BBT. There she comes across his father played by Peter Boyle who says some rascist things. Well, the character of Leticia is presented as a truely shallow person and simpleton. She runs off hating the BBT character and this is a HUGE obstacle in their relationship being unable to trust BBT as not being a rascist as well.

Apparently, the writers see fit to have the Leticia character be such an unreasonable dullard that she transfers any rascist sentiments by anyone to apply also to how BBT feels about her.

Just as if a butterfly has rascist thoughts in a corn field in Illinois, it can cause a chain reaction and become genocide in Indonesia. So it is that Leticia and BBT break up due to the rascist perspective of BBT's father. It's all so hard to overcome because Leticia won't talk to BBT anymore to know he isn't a rascist also.

The movie is another simplistic feel good story designed for extra-segregated types who like to proclaim "I have (Black/White) friends and I consider them my equals."

Despite being complete garbage otherwise, I did have a fondness for a certain scene. BBT brings his rascist dad Peter Boyle to the old people's home. During the interview, the representative states "You must really love your father". BBT's reply, "Not really".

It is simplistic garbage like this movie that shows there still is a long way to go in regards to examining racial tensions.



This is a real "Monsters"...Balls
This is such a revolting movie that requires a certain mental and emotional degeneracy to create in its totality. But, I guess the real concern should be that of Halle Berry and Puff Daddy. One has to stop and wonder what manner of emotional and mental inadequacy besets these two individuals that they, with all their financial progress and public standing, could stoop so low to actually act those roles and so blatantly contribute towards publicly assasinating the so called "Black" Male ( the inverted commas "" are used because in truth my skin color and my hair color are two different colors and thus it is a senseless base for reference of a human race?). The question is, could these individuals not have requested that the script be void of undertones? And if refused could they not have stood up for something in their lives and walked away from the roles? There are numerous questions unaswered/unasked, but I shall leave that to individuals to bewilder about.

Back to the the two individuals in question here, Without being rude, It seems intelligence is not their strongest virtues.

Furthermore, I wonder if those who "review" this movie either lack, intentionally / unintentionally the capacity to see beyond their own prejudices and have thus, self-blind folded themselves to the "undertones" towards the "black" male in this movie? Even the verbal content is derogatory and filled with cliche's of the "black" male. Something reviewers here (for some reason best known to them) tend to pretend is not evident in the movie. Ironically, this movie and its questionable content was Something brought to my attention by a few people from even Asian, european and Afro-Caribean/African origin during light conversations when this movie was mentioned. Yet these "reviewers" whitewash this obvious fact and somehow shower praise....beats me!!

Anyway, I do not need to defend the race gender that I am a part of, but there are numerous 'brothers' out there who exists that do not conform to todays stereotype low-level intelligent, gun totting retard hoodlum desperate to become an entertainer of any sort that the media trys so relentlessy to port as "role" models for "blacks".

Just as there are a few 'sisters' out there who are not plagued with emotional and mental inadequacies that drive them to vainlessly try to become semi-quasi straight (fake)haired defuncts of society that daily aligns our television viewing and walks our streets.

Sadly, maybe these retard actors, singers and sports personnel could take a few lessons from the behaviour of people like Mr Wesley Snipes, Mr Lennox Lewis and Mr Rocky Johnson maybe they will learn from these peoples behaviour (in the toughest/racist of times) that you do not need to bend all the way backwards in your quest for public attention, especially when you have reached a certain level within that artificial world of self-inadequacies.

something to make you feel alive
OK. So I don't really know the harsh realities of southern America. What I could see in Monster's Ball is two people in desperate need of relief from their miserable lives. Billy Bob and Halle Berry are both astounding. I heard people say she didn't deserve the Oscar so I really wanted to see the movie. Don't believe a word of that! She is simply great, very different from all her other roles. She has a special vulnerability and sadness in her eyes that would touch the coldest of hearts. And the crying scenes are extrmeely intense. OK, so the sex scenes were a bit long given the circumstances, but I totally cope with the idea of removing pain with anti-pain, which is pleasure. Actually there's a book (I honestly don't remember the title) where the main character says "I need to have sex or I'll start cuttin' myself, to take the pain off my mind". And Halle Berry's line reminded me of that phrase. So just watch the movie and leave politics behind.

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