shyboy22: So movie is about this dude who whistle blows and sleeps with lesbian's to impregnate them. Okay understood but looking at the trailer, all those "lesbians" seem to want sex from the opposite sex. Now they COULD be bi-sexual but if you have all those lesbian in a room, why would all of them look like they want a guy.
Nightscream: They don’t. Of the first two he impregnates, one, his ex, Fatima, wants to do it the old fashioned way, but the other, Fatima’s girlfriend, refuses to do it that way. As for the first other five that Fatima decides to bring to him, only two are into it. Bai Ling and Paula Jai Parker’s characters are pretty enthusiastic about it, but Michole White and Sarita Choudhury’s character’s are both very nervous about it in the film, with Jack (Anthony Mackie) having trouble pulling Choudhury’s legs apart because she so tense. Savannah Haske’s character seems downright anti-male, and pretty brusque during the act. That’s four of the first six who are not enthused about the idea.
shyboy22: Shouldn't a lesbian not want/like a man. Then at the end when he gets caught he talks about whistle blowing not a crime, doesn't make sense to the movie plot at all. Also in real life why would so many lesbians want to have sex with one person??? because hes black ??? What is Spike trying to say!!!
Nightscream: Because this one person is the one providing the sperm, and he shows them his package before they seal the deal, causing one of them to place her money on the table and say, “Sold!”
shyboy22: terrible plot, I think Spike just wants to make a movie about sex and tries to get away with it by including a whistle blowing action which has nothing to do with the main plot and if the main plot is about the actions/consequence of being a whistle blower then why the hell is the trailer shown mainly the hot lesbians.
Nightscream: Having seen the movie last night, the two parts of the plot are weaved together seamlessly and, with each one growing logically out of the other.
shyboy22: Now I am not A Spike Lee hater, hell I don't even know much about him but I seriously feel he is trying to make a quick buck at a movie that deals with sex, especially with lesbians :) which is not bad because everyone does that... just that the movie will have so much plot holes.
Nightscream: Such as? How can you know this if you haven’t seen it?
Prof_Kermit: Why, oh why, would a lesbian pay 10,000 dollars to have SOME NOBODY impregnate them when they could be artificially inseminated for less than that or have some other nobody do it for free.
Nightscream: First, the main character, Jack isn’t a “nobody,” he’s the ex-boyfriend of one of the first two women who go to him. Second, she tells him the reason they don’t want a sperm bank is because she doesn’t trust the data about the donor, suggesting that an 6 foot tall Oxford genius might really be a fat couch potato. As for artificial insemination costing less, just how much less is that? My understanding was that it costs thousands of dollars.
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Nightscream
20 years ago
Sorry. I was trying for some time to write a title for that post that I could fit in there, and kept changing the wording around to do so. I now see that "lesbians" actually takes up the same amount of space. I suppose I could also have put "women" or "girls" in there too. Sorry about that. Hope no one was offended by the term.
"Revenge is a dish best served cold"
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katie8787
20 years ago
Technically everyone is carrying all sorts of recessive alleles.
Maybe he was a morally upright genius.
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judyinnyc
20 years ago
I have to agree with your take on the movie. I saw it at a screening a few days ago and I really enjoyed it. I fear, though, that some people will go all "politically correct" on us and object to the lesbian content. That's too bad because I thought this was a good movie.
The plot, or better yet, the point Spike's trying to make is clear to me. I think he's trying to say that when it comes to ethics and morals, those decisions are never black and white. I know that's obvious so why say it? I think we need to keep hearing it so that we do stay, well, ethical.
The corporation in the film is a drug company that is searching for a cure for AIDs. Even with the best of intentions by the researchers, the money guys still want to push it through the FDA a year early so they can make more money. Yes it's important that we have companies with enough of a financial stake to provide the necessary facility to create these cures...but if they are only motivated by money will the optimum product be released? will it get into the hands of the people that really need it?
In the same way, the impregnating business that the lead character gets into has two sides to it. They have the best of intentions: helping women who otherwise might not have a baby get pregnant. But is it right for one man to impregnate 19 women? Is it right to pay him $10,000?
In the end, does the end really justify the means?
Throughout the film, the lead character goes on a journey of self-discovery, and to me that is the real plot and the core strength of the film. He is empowered by doing the right thing even at the risk of losing all his material things, he comes to understand his parents' relationship, he is able to forgive his ex-girlfriend, and he rediscovers his capability to love and be loved. This path of self-discovery is foreshadowed in the opening scene when the doctor is telling him that his career "isn't real" but what he should do is find someone to love and to have children (boy did he ever!)
I found the movie to be more inspiring, in terms of standing up for what you believe in, than "Farenheit 9/11" which basically just hit you over the head with "Bush Bad, War Bad" but didn't give any solutions. [Yes, I had stock in Enron, Worldcomm, and Tyco...not a lot, but enough to piss me off.]
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selmaboots
20 years ago
look, she's gotta have it is a stupid male fantasy about a nymphomaniac.
this movie is also a stupid male fantasy about one guy going around screwing a bunch of women, and getting paid large sums of money to do it!!!! hahahaha! how idiotic is that??
if lesbians want a baby they do NOT have to have sex with a male.....and especially for 10,000 dollars????!!!
WTF!!!!
if lesbians want sperm they don't have to have sexual intercourse with a male. and they do NOT have to pay 10,000 dollars for it!!!
the whole premise of this movie is so false and stupid i wonder if spike lee has a brain in his head at all.
spike lee is known for having shallow female characters in his movies...usually as sex objects.
she's gotta have it....(the main character is a young pretty woman who is a nymphomaniac)
girl 6 (the main character is a young pretty woman who is a phone sex worker)
do the right thing (rosie perez's character exists as a nag with a nice pair of boobs, which of course are shown in close up and spike lee's character gets to rub ice cubes on them)
when it comes to his female characters the guy seems to have the maturity level of a 13 year old.
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