What is this film about.
It seems rather coy about something. But I cannot work out what it is.
Help please!
It’s a story about one woman in love with two or a movie about two men in love with one woman. You never realy sure if she’s in love with either, as she’s coy in what she says. Both men want her to choose between them (wait now that I think about it there may be a third or more, if you watch it you’ll understand that comment), and they both do a lot of monologues on what her motivations might be for stringing them along. None realize that she’s not ready to settle down and like them for different reasons. The title itself refers to sex, but it’s been sometime since I saw the movie, and I don’t think her motives were completely about sex, but that thats how the guys perceived it.
I always thought the ‘it’ in She’s Gotta Have It was her way. and I always wished the “She” in She’s Gotta Have It was a better actress.
Actually there’s THREE men in the running and one lesbian flirtaton, although Spike Lee’s man-boy b-boy character, Mars Blackmon, is an also-ran compared to Tommy Hick’s uptight and uptown Jamie Overstreet and John Canada Terrell’s superbly narcissistic Greer Childs. Opal Gilstrap as The Lesbian evokes the provacative where there really is none: Nola Darling’s character is strictly addicted.
Biggirl: Tracy Camilla Johns did kind of dry up and disappear after this movie, didn’t she? I think I saw her giving a lap dance in NEW JACK CITY and that’s about it. But lawdy, lawdy, lawdy that chick was fi-oone back in the day.
The “it” was sex on her terms. although the sex itself may have been an act of rebellion against her upbringing, according to Spike Lee’s notes in his book, “She’s Gotta Have It”: Inside Guerilla Fillmaking." Nola Darling was hardly interested in monogamy a or fulfilling relationship.
That’s what I meant, but Mars and Hicks seemed to be the primary drivers of the movie. I too thought she was fine, but couldn’t act well.