Nonureva Really Surprised!

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

elshikh4 Spike Lee is one confusing filmmaker. Sometimes he makes masterpieces like (Bamboozled) or (25th Hour). Sometimes he makes good movies like (Jungle Fever), (Malcolm X). Or at worst just enjoyable ones like (Inside Man). But, on the other side, and what an other side that is, he makes weak rather stupid and aimless movies with enjoyable nothing, like (Summer of Sam), (He Got Game) or (Girl 6).The funny thing about this last bunch of movies is that it alleges a very serious case. And that what gets on your nerve badly, since the level of the movie is chokingly shitty in delivering whatever it says about such a case.I don't know. Is it vanity ? Is it the unsecured trial of new ways to tell a story ? Is it only laziness and sluggishness ? However what I do know is that I didn't conclude much of Girl 6, or enjoy anything of it as well !The matter is easy to review. We have parallel story lines that go exactly like this : a black girl who works in the sex phone business; making a living during her suspended career as respectful actress wanna-be, her talks with a guy who loves her, a good neighbor, her fantasies about herself as one of the black icons in the history of Hollywood, her dealing with her customers as horny lonely mostly sad callers, one of them is a deranged, and an accident of a black poor child who's trying to survive. Actually the movie moves so outrageously tepid from storyline to the other in what seems as arithmetical order AND THAT WAS IT !Making a movie about the sex phone business is so inspiring idea. Aside from being different – rarely seen – subject, it could read many delicate problems in one society. But with that script forget it !The effort done by (Theresa Randle) to make her character believable and effective, the movie's only positive thing, was wholly wasted among the cold dealing with the material. The movie has so artistically poor, sometimes immature, personality. There is no focusing on one pure thing. And with silent drama and uninterested camera it made me want to shut it off. The love interest's storyline was handled in originally dull way. Actually everyone and everything looked idiot. And the end, oh the end, was the top of what this movie can achieve of stupidity; the heroine goes to a cinema that shows "girl 6" and there is a wide board hanging over the same street with the word "The End" ???!!!It's a journey from knowing that sex is needed obscenely trite whether in Hollywood or else. Women are goods to be sold for the men's desire anyhow. Or how we all live daydreams, having too hard time to fulfill them through big deranged world, or surrendering for them lastly. But as a matter of fact this movie has no clear point at all. Those were my wild guesses. So "maybe" it wanted to say something of them, none of them, all of them (!) Whatever its real meaning is it was shown as disarranged as all the disarranged scenes; that turned it eventually into a boring nonsense that has something serious but surely lost.This is bad movie, and a draft of real good one in the same time. Alas. Feverish P.S : did you notice how the standard of the celluloid was getting worse by the end of the scene just about every scene (with big black dots appear intermittently on the high right side of the screen) like the case with some ancient home made movies, the early poorly made new wave French films, or in the very old American ones, especially Tom & Jerry's ?! Is it a glitch? Or is it some *artistic* way from Lee to increase the size of this movie's crap ?!

Joe Ochoa Once again, I've watched a Spike Lee movie and wasn't very impressed. But, the real truth is that I just didn't understand it. Maybe he is too conceptual for me?Okay, you get the message. Women can't get acting gigs unless they flash their tits. So what does principal actress do after refusing to take off her top-she gets a job acting about having virtual sex! So she's able to pay the bills, but is still selling herself.The ex-husband is a pain-in-the-ass philosopher type who only steals "what he needs." Again Lee has to push the idea that every man wants a white woman. This is evidenced about halfway through film when boss tells all the phone sex women to be white unless asked to be otherwise. Yawn. The visuals are pleasant and Prince's songs really sound great. In fact, I only rented this film after I bought the soundtrack. Acting was good, the cameos are well-chosen and well-placed. But, I thought the movie could have done/said more.Don't go out of your way to see it, but if its it on, its worth a watch.

sunnyteigh I noticed that one of the user reviews for this film had a problem believing it was realistic enough. That this was a Suzan-Lori Parks script really says it all. She's a pulitzer prize winning playwright, the first African-American woman to win, whose plays are very often based on historical archival material. Something I've noticed from works of all kinds, books, films, plays, etc..., that include archival material and historical events and characters is that often the most bizarre and surreal things in the work come from the true story. A specific reference regarding Suzan-Lori Parks is her play Venus.

neilmac A good performance by Theresa Randle carries the movie. Theresa is believable and charismatic in the lead role (not to mention good-looking n]).There are a number of nice touches and funny bits. The way Theresa is gradually drawn into the phone-play and begins to half-believe the fantasy is well done. Halle Berry does a good cameo and the practice session where Naomi Campbell firmly puts down a sleazeball caller is hilarious.Enjoyed the music too. Prince wrote some of the songs and in particular there is a really nice blues vocal in the scene where Girl 6 waits to meet 'Bob Regular'.Complaint: I wish Spike Lee would stay out of his own movies - he can't act. His flat, emotionless performance spoils the credibility of his supposed friendship with the Theresa Randle character.