In The Dope Movie Analysis

Malcolm is a high school senior who’s trying to survive living in the projects by bonding over 90’s hip hop culture with his two friends Jib and Diggy, who are also in a punk band together. Malcolm gets a chance invitation to an underground party which leads Malcolm and his friends into some massive inconveniences and if Malcolm can push through, he can go from the geek, to being dope, to being himself.
Dope is a rated R film for very good reason, there’s violence, drugs, and woman wearing very little clothing, although the message is good. Malcolm has been trying his hardest to get into his dream school of Harvard, but no one believes he can do it, basically, the whole movie is Malcolm speaking aloud his essay for the application of the school. Throughout the whole movie Malcolm is faced with a lot of difficult situations that test his moral and I think it’s good for people to see people in situations like that to remind them to act smart and really think about the consequences. However that being said, I still think the rating should be rated R because children under 17 definitely shouldn’t watch this movie, I probably shouldn’t have watched this movie either, but I feel I’m knowledgeable enough to know not to do any of the things
Scott, he talks about how the filmmaker Rick Famuyiwa mocks and subverts stereotypes but is “unwilling to go beyond them entirely”, which I somewhat agree with. Famuyiwa sort of overturns the known stereotype that all African Americans are thugs, he still has that type of person in the movie, but the main character is portrayed as a geek, however, Famuyiwa places the home of Malcolm in the projects, which is another stereotype African Americans are trying to hide from. Unlike my review, I understand why the writer put Malcolm in the community he did, and that’s simply because his message was trying to show people how hard the lives are for African Americans when trying to get into college and not fitting