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Tim isn't honest. There's no balance in this film. The "documentary" aspect is...sorrowful. Just about all the commentary from women contributes to the perspective that Black women are contentious beings who live to create chaos and drama - we destroy the Black man's "peace". EVERY Black man interviewed is a street psychologist - with detailed commentary on what's wrong with us and how we got there. Most of the men aren't exceptional - a few refer to Black women as "bitches" and "hoes", but we should listen to them. Okay.The Black men speak boldly and confidently about the absence of fathers in the lives of Black women - as a major factor contributing to our supposed negative, combative nature. One of the problems with that mindset is that it implies that Black men somehow escaped the dysfunction that comes from dads being MIA. That doesn't begin to make sense."James" is the "perfect" Black man, with a shrew for a wife, "Tonya". Her character is an absolute failure...as a friend, let alone a wife. But the movie never invests much time examining the question of what was wrong with HIM to choose her. That's a legit question. The person you choose says a lot about you. If the script had been flipped and the bad spouse had been the husband, men everywhere would have blamed Tonya for choosing him, and insisted good Black men are in abundance. There's a brief scene where Jame's "conscience" is speaking to him thru Tonya - he married her because she was eye candy, not because she was a good woman. Who's fault was that? His...but after that brief moment of introspection, it goes right back to the idea that many Black women just aren't cut out for being loving, supportive and kind human beings. I knew what I was getting into, when I rented this movie - I wanted to see Jimmy. I saw Jimmy. The End.

I saw the movie on Showtime and I felt like I was watching something created and produced by the Ku Klux Klan. Unlike Diary of a Mad Black Woman where the viewer sees two types of men, Diary of a Tired Black Man is deliberate in its hate for black women. It was thought provoking in that it revealed that black women are still struggling with the century old pain that stems from slavery but it is evident that we must deal with this pain alone. This movie and America try to tell us what we are not but as a black woman who has never hit, yelled or mistreated a black man, I know who I am and this movie as taught me to be proud of black me. This will never matter to Tim Alexander who is involved in an interracial relationship anyway but to those black women and black men who still believe in each other- keep your head up.

I stumbled upon this film playing on Showtime and found it to be so riddled with stereotypes that it's hard to watch. 'Diary of a Tired Black Man' is a low-budget, hybrid drama/documentary, which apparently sets out to present and answer the question of why black women and men are incompatible.The film is not a technically beautiful one, but I'm a huge independent film fan, so I can live with the flaws. The single greatest problem with this film is that it took a subject matter ripe with possibility (an intimate look at Black Relationships in America) and turned it into a lopsided tirade against half of its subject matter--black women--which does the film its greatest disservice.In between interviews with an assortment of people across America (this film would've fared better solely as a documentary) , the filmmaker interjects staged, dramatic moments surrounding the diary of a 'Tired Black Man,' Jimmy Jean Louis. The badly-written scenes, which are apparently designed to help audiences understand why this particular black man is 'tired,' only highlight the lead's poor choice in a high-maintenance, gorgeous but self-absorbed, airhead. This is a mistake that American men of all races have made, nothing race-based or shocking here, but the laborious scenes, interspersed with the interviews, gives the film a disjointedness that's exhausting to watch. Even Jimmy Jean Louis looks like he'd rather be elsewhere.With the 'Tired Black Man's' diary writing as its basis, the film seeks to validate nearly two hours of raced-based drivel, without really getting to the heart of the matter: People are ultimately people. Men will be men and women will be women. To single-out universal, relationship issues as a stereotypically 'black problem' is just, well... 'Tired.'Don't believe the 10 star reviews here written in the same voice. It's truly an abuse of IMDb and an insult to film-making.

I looked at the external reviews for this film; all of them were positive. That's pretty amazing, as very few films ever made have received only good reviews. Then I noticed that the IMDb rating is only 2.9 out of 10, one of the lowest ratings on IMDb.It's also peculiar that out of 80 ratings, not one person wrote a review. These facts don't seem to add up.The maker of the film didn't choose only the good reviews and exclude all of the bad ones, did he? That would be rather biased. However, almost all of the external reviews I read, even though they rated the film highly, said the filmmaker was very biased in his presentation of black men being mistreated by their unappreciative black women.I really don't know what the rules of IMDb are as far as what external reviews are included or not; whether the filmmakers have control over what is posted regarding their films.It just seems something rather skewed is going on; a film highly rated by certain critics I hadn't heard of before, but yet with one of the lowest ratings on IMDb.