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A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Whoever "she" is in the title, it could as well refer to critics and the "me" to Spike Lee, because it's just as if the controversial director deliberately made THE film that would draw a definite line between a feeble minority who still believes in his genius, and the rest of the world who misunderstands when not hating him. I'm not to be counted on the 'haters' crowd although I certainly can understand the misunderstanding.First, "She Hate Me" tells not a story but an aggregation of stories effortlessly crushed and condensed one another. It's about Jack Armstrong (Anthony Mackle) a young bio-tech executive who exposes the corrupt practices of his top-management, until the whistle blows against him and makes him the target of a media conspiracy. Suddenly, the story takes a 180-degree turn and Jack becomes the sperm donor for wealthy lesbians. From thriller to comedy, these directions were already two too many, but then Spike Lee fearlessly injected his darling: racial commentary.Jack, a black man, is immediately compared to Frank Wills, the security guard who discovered the Watergate break-in, and the film turns into a political movie where a man has to prove his integrity while he already was accused of fraud, and you have the unbelievable synchronism of two civil actions in the same film. As if it wasn't enough, you have some romantic comedy, since his ex-fiancée initiated the whole sperm-scheme. Fatima Goodrich (Kerry Washington) is a lesbian but still has feelings for Jack. And the icing on the cake comes from John Turturro as Don Bonasera (a joke for any Godfather fan), the father of one of Jack's customers, played by Monica Belluci, and bingo, the Mafia joins the story. Naturally, these plots don't have the same narrative density but they're all treated with different tones, following multiple directions, from politics to sexuality, naturally racism, justice and ethics, it's "Look Who's Talking" with "The Firm", "Erin Brokovich" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" with Spike Lee's trademark social commentary. The whole ingredients create one hell of a cocktail, spicy, sweet, sour sometimes, but with some refreshing qualities about it. This is not for every taste, but I liked it for one reason, I trust Spike Lee's intelligence.I know that if he makes me believe that a man can impregnate six women the same night, much more with orgasms, that John Turturro plays a Godfather-like figure and is the father of Monica Belluci (nine years younger and a totally different accent), or that Armstrong would clear his case after one inspirational speech. Then I guess, the point of the story is elsewhere, and as I say about many films that flirt with parodies to better emphasize the absurdity they denounce, without being preachy: it's not about giving the right answers, but asking the right questions.And the most important one that miraculously plays as the common denominator of all the subplots involving Jack Armstrong is the notion of price, financial or symbolical, it's about responsibility which is the price the conscience pays for dignity. This is the reason his friend and doctor commits suicide in the beginning, the scam involves a medicine supposed to cure AIDS but at what cost? Given that AIDS patients are mostly from poor backgrounds, especially in Africa. Well, I hope the time we ask ourselves that question will come soon.But it's through the lesbian plot that Spike Lee raised such important questions it inspires one word for me: prophetic. Now that in most occidental countries, LGBT communities got the right for marriage, the next step for their fight is the right for adoption, and here it gets sensitive. In fact, it's the very reason many people were against marriage in the first place; they knew it would pave the way to the issue of adoption. Now, for someone who deliberately takes a path that prevented him for giving life (by natural ways) is the desire to have a child selfish or legitimate?I say 'selfish' in consideration to the child who'd grow without the two parental figures, or because having a child makes only sense when the child is the fruit of love. The problem in the film is that the lesbians want a child because they feel they have to have one, it's obvious for them while it's not, biologically speaking, the other one is that they want to be mothers in total carelessness toward the necessity of a father-figure, as if it was negligible. And thirdly, they pay a price for it. And that's the connection with the AIDS issue. Many people are poor and need money so, aren't we leaning to a situation where children will become items, when wealthy homosexual couples will be able to order children from people eager to pay, because adoption is impossible. When anything has a price, even a child can, and don't think I'm cynical, a political militant in France said that it's as normal for a woman to rent her belly than a worker who rent his arms.This is how low we can sink, and I guess Spike Lee, doesn't try to preach but finds the right ending to this confusion, by inserting the idea of love and responsibility, because it's lives of children which are at stakes, and it can't be dictated by the content of a business paper, because precisely: business isn't humanity, money isn't conscience, and sex isn't love. Lee found one hell of a way to get to that point, but the film is entertaining, insightful, with a subtle wisdom hidden underneath the seemingly chaos. It's not "Malcolm X" or "25th Hour", so I invite the haters to base their criticism on Spike Lee's more conventional films, because "She Hate Me" is his piece of weirdness, and he's entitled to make one, like Quentin Tarantino does and gets everyone drooling about it. But I guess Lee is also the Frank Wills of filmmaking.

"She Hate Me" is a problematic and confused Motion Picture. Parts are engaging and humorous while others are poorly crafted and self-conscious. Firstly the film has no pace. This could easily have been corrected by cutting all the dream sequences, all the scenes featuring Q-Tip and all the Watergate sequences. This would have resulted in a more focused and compact film. Why directly after the main protagonists discuss in detail a painful experience is it necessary to show a flashback of that exact moment? By doing so the film becomes too literal and nothing is left to the audience's imagination. The scenes concerning Watergate are embarrassing and very badly directed. The cutting room floor was screaming out for these scenes but Spike Lee left them in. Why? Does Spike Lee rate his work so highly that none of the footage shot can be cut?The dialogue between Q-Tip and Anthony Mackie in their walk through the park is contrived and immature. Not for one moment does Anthony Mackie convince as a Vice President of a powerful drugs company. In fact this actor is completely miss cast. He does not convey any authority, intelligence or sexuality. Wesley Snipes could have provided all these qualities with ease. I respect Spike Lee as a director but as this Motion Picture proves he needs to listen to a subjective opinion and act upon it, so his films can be less sprawling and more focused. This could so easily have been a very good film with some savage cutting.

This movie really surprised me. I mean, I was raised watching Spike Lee movies simply because he was doing things other young directors weren't doing. He was the voice for voiceless masses of us blacks folks. He gave a platform to situations in the hood that most other people could case less about. However, as I aged and developed an eye for critiquing Spike's movies, I realized that he has this same formula for his movies which he rarely veered from and he always had to beat you over the head with the message. She Hate Me breaks that mold, just a pinch because he still follows his model, but this movie was surprisingly good. While I do feel he did bit off way more than he could have possibly chewed in 2 hours, he did address most of the issues he brought up quite well in the time alloted. Okay, from the previews, you know there's his guy whose lesbian "friend" approaches him to impregnate him, which in and of itself is a bit weird, but the movie is so much more deeper than that simply plot. Spike tackled tons of issues, mostly current issues that we all deal with now, but ultimately, the movie tackles, what would you do and how far would you go for money? This is a good movie worth spending 2 hours of time dissecting. I'm always recommending buying it so you can watch time and time again and discuss.

I just loved Spike Lee's 25th Hour with Edward Norton so I thought why not watch some more movies by Lee. However, I must admit that She Hate Me was a disappointment - yeah, the topics are very hot and relevant, the execution is beautiful, but the film somehow lacks a coherent overall line, perhaps its due to the fact that the film tries to connect and mix too many things (whistleblowers, lesbians, love, African Americans), the bottom line is just not clear and none of the topics are dealt with in detail in this film.Moreover, some actions by the actors don't make sense at all (to me - a major flaw), some actors were totally unnecessary (ex. Monica Belucci didn't add anything other than to extend the length of this already lengthy movie). The drama looks fake to me, but I liked the ending, though. Thus the 4/10.