A revealing have a look at contemporary youth culture, writer-director Mario Van Peebles “We the particular Party” shows teenagers when they are, not as adults need them to be. Set amidst the most current trends in music, dance and fashion, “We the Party” can be a colorful, cutting-edge comedy set in the ethnically diverse Los Angeles senior high school during Americas first dark president. The film focuses on five friends when they deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves. Evoking such classic teen comedies for the reason that Breakfast Club and House Party but with an attitude and style all a, “We the Party” captures the hopes, confusion, challenges and dreams of todays teenagers when they plunge headlong into an uncertain future.
We the Party can be a coming-of-age story of a generation which will think in tweets, or tweet instead regarding think, but still has to handle very material and all-encompassing concerns. The fact that the film opens with the unsmiling African American kid wearing a dark hoodie walking to school is nothing less than chilling in these situations of lethal fashion choices for kids of color. Director Mario Van Peebles, who also stars from the film alongside several associated with his sons, has crafted an amazingly well-edited and authentic section of filmmaking thats both exhilaratingly enjoyment (think a fewer self-indulgent, and definitely less queer Kaboom) and socially conscious-to a restriction.
The narrative is largely driven from the old notion that boys will be boys and will make the relentless quest for pussy a full-time crew effort, including taping an new iphone 4 camera to ones footwear to broadcast skirt-wearing girls private parts for the nearest iPad screen. But while the film could be insensitive, or blind, to the misogyny and homophobia on the general culture (your token gay teen is often a finger-snapping, head-bobbing fashionista), it takes the troubles of race and type quite seriously.
We the Party uses the daily lives of a gaggle of mostly privileged and black Los Angeles-area kids as they deal with such troubles as the need to lose their virginity just before prom or convincing their parents to obtain them a car. Not everyones problems are generally so petty. One of the schools outcasts, the hoodie-wearing rapper H. C., for Conscious Criminal (played out by rapper YG, n? Kennan Jackson), has been held back in his grade several periods, lives in poverty, and is constantly endangered by his thuggish old brother (played because of the jarringly casted Snoop Dogg).
Van Peebles, who plays the type teacher, does his best to pepper the film in reference to his politically conscious mottos, some of which could feel heavy-handed (minimum amount effort now means minimum-wage later and insecure people buy a great deal of stuff they dont have to have). But the fact the We the Party will be, from the beginning, so clear about its pro-education message gives its many spectacular party displays and rap battles a sense of gravitas. Its like booty-shaking for any noble cause, or something like of which.
Its also rather impressive the 52-year-old Van Peebles has become able to represent todays teenage culture so entreatingly well besides in his dialogue, but in the very visual kind of the film, which turns each scene right bombardment of broken-up items with unexpected speed improvements and cuts.