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Disappointment for a huge fan!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I learned a lot from the documentary, but I thought it was sexist in all the talk about men financially supporting women's weaves. They said black women were "expensive" or "high maintenance". Who says men are paying for their hairdos? One of the women interviewed in the hair salon had her own business, the other was a teacher, so where did the assumption that men were paying for the hairdos came from? They didn't show any statistics to back that up.. Women are so hard-working, they are a huge part of the labor force, they don't just sit around all day getting weaves out of other people's pockets. I know the documentary wasn't about that, and I'm sure some women do get financial support for their hair, but that bothered me. Other than that, I feel this relevant issue that is connected to certain social and historical contexts and our consumer society should be more addressed in the media and Chris Rock is really doing his part.

Good HairThe problem with having an ostentation hairdo is that birds always want to nest in it.However, some of the women in this documentary wouldn't mind the feathered flare.After his daughter asks him why she doesn't have "good hair", comedian Chris Rock decides to explore the hardships of having African-American hair, specifically for the female, which is tantamount to torture. From expensive weaves to painful relaxers that chemically straighten hair for that Caucasian look, Rock talks to barbers, salon owners and noted celebrities (Eve, Ice-T, Maya Angelou, Al Sharpton, Nia Long, Raven-Symoné, Salt-n-Pepa) about their trials and tribulations in achieving "good hair".By reinforcing that one's power comes from within not from up top, Rock successfully dissects the culturally complexities of "good hair" with comedic precision that's also highly educational to curious white viewers.Nevertheless, no matter what type of hair you're born with, just pray it's not red.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

This comment is in response to the film "Good Hair." I felt that the film was made to poke fun at Black women who go to harsh lengths to straighten their hair and to get hair extensions. The film makes references to slavery and let you know how many Black Americans were brainwashed for centuries into believing that straighter hair is better. I'd like to respond to this by saying that even though there are some Black women who chemically straighten their hair a lot and use lots of hair extensions, White women have been chemically treating their hair for decades as well to get curly hairstyles. If anyone ever watches old Hollywood films and TV shows, many of the White women's hairstyles are mostly curled in all of those films and shows, and in later years, you would see their hair wavy or bouncy. Most White women you see today on soap operas always have their hair either curly or wavy or bouncy. None of those hairstyles are natural because most White women hair is just plain straight and limp. Some have naturally curly hair but most of them do not. These are all chemically treated hair styles. Many also wear hair extensions to make their thin hair look fuller. They also go to extreme measures to get breast implants, lip implants, cheekbone lifts, butt lifts and dark tans. I haven't heard any one really talk on this much in the media as they talk about the Black women's hair issues. These issues are just as serious or more serious because when you spend thousands of dollars on plastic surgery to make yourself look like someone else or when you risk getting skin cancer just to get a dark tan, that is not cool. Even though this is true, I bet you would never see a White male comedian make a film on these issues, the way Chris Rock made a film on the Black hair issue. However those are also important issues that should be discussed. Maybe there should be a film in where both African American and White American girls can talk about how they feel about themselves and the images they see on screen, and the filmmaker should ask what would make them want to change. Maybe there will be more positive images in the media for all kinds of young girls and women to look up to.

So I saw the trailer for Good Hair a while back and really did want to see it. The trailer was funny and this looked like a good documentary, I love documentaries that take a good look at our society and how we behave towards something. But since Good Hair had a limited release, I never got to see the movie in the theater. But my boyfriend and I rented Good Hair a couple days ago and watched it of course, it honestly disappointed me. While I thought the documentary was such a good idea, I hated that it was done by Chris Rock. I don't mind Chris Rock, but he has got to stop with the white jokes, seriously. It seemed like this movie was almost set to just hate white people the way he was talking, not all white people have perfect hair as he was describing. He has this scene at the end where he's talking to black men in a barber shop and saying how they cannot touch their girlfriend's weave, then they would rather "make love" to a white woman because you can touch whatever and it lost me there, it was so uncomfortable.Chris Rock and Jeff Stilson have made a short story/documentary into a full-length film in this witty documentary with serious undertones. Rock says he was inspired to make the film when his young daughter asked him, "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?" and he and Stilson examine black America's obsession with their hair as they visit the Bronner Brothers International Hair Show, an annual trade show for the African-American hair care industry which includes fierce competitions among stylists from around the country and demonstrations of new hair products and techniques. Along the way, Rock also talks to a number of African-American luminaries about their hair issues (including Maya Angelou, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Nia Long, Raven Symone, Ice-T, and Paul Mooney), researches the dangers of many common hair-straightening treatments, reveals the surprising expense of regular hair "relaxing" and weaves, and ponders what the pursuit of straight hair says about African-American cultural identity.I really wanted to love this movie, I thought the idea was a really good one as we are a society obsessed with looks and always trying to be perfect. I just wish that they wouldn't joke so much about race, if it's one or two jokes, I can take it, but when it's almost the entire feature, it looses me. Also I think the way it was put together wasn't exactly correct either, we're going back and forth between stories that I lost interest in. I cannot recommend this documentary honestly, I know that I should lighten up, this is Chris Rock, but I consider myself very liberal. This was just too much and was handled very inappropriately.1/10