Friday, September 20, 2024

The Review: Don't Play Us Cheap/The River Niger


Don't Play Us Cheap DNF/10


This should say WTF/10 instead. L called it “Don't Watch Us Sleep” and “Don't Slap Us Away.” I laughed a lot at that, not this movie. I don't know how L and I got here but we were looking for stuff to watch and found this “movie” on Max. What is it about? Two demons that are a roach and a rat sing a long song and then later turn into two guys trying to ruin a party but Black people know how to deal with struggle so they just keep on having a good time. This looked like a play but it was a film that was then a play. I was 100% baffled watching this and even after reading how it ends I still can't make sense of it.

The River Niger DNF/10



Just like the previous film this felt like a fever dream. While L napped she left this on and I tried my best to make sense of it. This dude is a house painter and poet that drinks a lot and his wife has cancer again. His son is back from the military and was gonna be a lawyer and dropped out of the military and is being recruited by the guys he used to run with who have a plan to start the revolution. The way people in the background reacted to this movie showed that there was probably no filming permits attained. Dude dragging another one through the streets at gunpoint and people were like “Yeah. This is Watts in the 70s.”


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