I am not exactly the demographic for Rick Famuyiwa’s new inner city coming-of-age film, Dope, but I loved the challenge of dealing with its brazen humor. Like director Spike Lee’s once controversial Do The Right Thing, the movie questions easy answers to pressing racial problems. Like Melvin Van Peebles groundbreaking Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, it meets its viewers head-on by tackling clichéd notions of black representation. Seeing the raunchy behavior of Superbad lampooned might have surprised me once, but nearly a decade later its blunt language and uninhibited behavior is fair game. As director Lee Daniels . . . . . . READ MORE
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