She Hate Me
by Spike Lee
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Actor: Anthony Mackie, Ellen Barkin, Jim Brown, Kerry Washington, Monica BellucciDirector: Spike Lee
Brand: Sony
Producer: Jamel Debbouze
Writer: Spike Lee
Producer: Craig M. Spitzer
Producer: Fernando Sulichin
Producer: Jean Cazes
Producer: Preston L. Holmes
Writer: Michael Genet
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of She Hate Me
DVD Review: You know, It's hard out here for a pimp
Summary: 3 Stars
Spike has always had this unusual way of showing he knows exactly what a well crafted structure for making movies is by his methodical way of totally abandoning the common practice. This is to be expecetd of all great artists in any discipline. Sometimes, however, this works okay but not greatly for the great director Spike Lee, like when he is going against form to say something important about gender and sexual relations, as in GIRL 6. Sometimes it works exceptionally well, like in The 25th HOUR--a movie that, as a native New Yorker, poet and father made me cry like a woman at a wedding for an hour after it was over. Sometimes this works so well he creates masterpieces, like DO THE RIGHT THING and MALCOLM X. And then sometimes you walk away wishing he had embraced the vehicular artistry that exists in common practice structure regardless of its predicatbility, like he did in MO' BETTER BLUES--or his latest, THE INSIDE MAN--because his willful departure from structure and traditional artistic form creates a wish in you that he hadn't...a wish strong enough to distract you from the movie in its entirety.
And yet it doesn't distract you enough to stop watching.
The protagonist of SHE HATE ME is, like in JUNGLE FEVER, an upwardly mobile Black Urban Professional Man working as a VP for a pharmeceutical conglomerate on the verge of producing an actual cure for AIDS. Or so they'd like to believe. The money to be made from such a revolutionary product gets in the eyes of the CEO (played by Woody Harrelson) and one of the higher ups (Ellen Barkin) to the point that they forget all ethics and morality and even dispense with the good science of the doctor who helped design the not yet ready for the market drug. This leads to the protagonist stuck in a quagmire of corruption after the doctor commits suicide...which leads to him becoming the kind of whistle blower that could bring the entire company down. The company heads naturally have no intention of allowing this, and proceed to destroy his career.
This perfectly timed plot that the movie opens with is almost thrown away after the first twenty minutes, which is where the structural failures begin to become a distraction. Our protagonist meets up with his ex-fiancee after his bank accounts are frozen and he has been fired. She is a lesbian convert who cheated on him with a woman on the journey of discovering her true nature--which is actually more like bisexuality than lesbianism (a subject that is brought up in the movie but purposely never resolved). She wants a baby for her and her female life partner...and she wants it to come from him.
Thus begins the journey of our protagonist becoming essentially a patriarch/prostitute who impregnates almost twenty women, for five thousand dollars each.
The messages about everything from the nature of human relationships, gender and sexuality to the value of human life in this modern technological age, to the truth about conspiracy and whistleblowers is stated in unusual ways.
The structure of the narrative, again, is purposely disjunct. An actor once told me that a screenplay is the closest thing to poetry in the literary arts; Spike's SHE HATE ME is more of a slam run by two or three street poets of New York City riffing simultaneously in that context than a single mini-Homerian epic or even Shakespearean sonnet. And again, this is what makes the movie difficult to digest yet simultaneously too intriguing to stop watching. Just when you think he did a bad job at conveying his message(s), you are left feeling like the messages you thought he was trying to convey are not actually the ones he was most concerned with-and therefore he may still be completely on point; you just haven't figured out what he's really saying yet.
For this alone SHE HATE ME is worth seeing. But in case that's not enough, the sex scenes are about as hot as it gets! Damn!!!!
A perfect date movie double feature: Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN and SHE HATE ME. Just make sure you eat your Wheaties, and don't have to go to work in the morning!
Description of She Hate Me
SHE HATE ME - DVD MovieIn a long and varied career, She Hate Me is easily one of Spike Lee's most unusual films. On the one hand, it's a drama. On the other, it's a comedy. Then there's the structure: a crazy quilt made up out of several different stories. Even the style is a patchwork incorporating animation and pseudo-documentary--in the vein of Lee's 1986 hit She's Gotta Have It. It all revolves around one John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (8 Mile's Anthony Mackie), a successful executive at a biotech company much like ImClone (the one that brought Martha Stewart down). When Jack blows the whistle and loses his job, ex-fiancée Fatima (Ray's Kerry Washington), who left him for another woman, offers the now-penniless Jack $10,000 to impregnate her. All goes well, so they set up business together, and he proceeds to impregnate countless gay women, including mafia princess Simona (Monica Bellucci). If there's one thing that keeps it all together, it's Mackie, who handles the many changes Lee puts him through with admirable aplomb. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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