Black man naked sitting

Near the end of Joe Talbot's elegiac film about friendship, gentrification, and the stories we choose to define us, our weary protagonist, Jimmie Jimmie Fails is on a city bus, overhearing a conversation between a pair of exasperated young female transplants, complaining about living in San Francisco, and talking about moving down to East L. Incensed, Jimmie cuts in: "You have to love San Francisco before you can hate it," he tells them. If the film is largely about the changing texture and tone of relationships over time, the ways in which we ultimately lose touch with the sense of the kindred, it's the city itself that proves to be the most volatile example of this sort of loss. Such is the plight of Jimmie Fails playing himself , who, along with his best friend, the soft-spoken, artistic Mont Jonathan Majors , live at the house of Mont's blind grandpop Danny Glover in Bayview, a rough, easternmost SF neighborhood near shipyards so toxic, workers in hazmat suits swarm around the waterfront trying to clean it up. Thing is, back when he was very little, Jimmie's family once owned a beautiful Queen Anne-style house in Fillmore, a place he still dotes over, to the consternation of the elderly white couple who are its current owners. In Jimmie's family lore, his grandfather built the place himself immediately after WWII, a fact he's always taken enormous pride in.

Director Joe Talbot kicks things off with an awe-inspiring opening sequence where Jimmie and Monty hop on the same skateboard and soar through the streets of San Francisco on their way to work. The movie uses similar tricks to create a unique look and feel. However, it also has a Romantic worldview with lots of foul language and a couple scenes of male nudity intended to bring some laughs. So, the movie is excessive. Fails has come out of seemingly nowhere with the movie, in which he plays a fictional version of himself in a story co-written by his best friend, Joe Talbot, who directs the movie. The story follows the fictional Jimmie and his best friend, Monty Jonathan Majors , as Jimmie tries desperate and inventive measures to reclaim his childhood home after 12 years when its owners are forced to leave the premises. Jimmie has had the deck stacked against him his entire life, with a mother who abandoned him years ago and a father who is a former junkie who subsists by making and selling pirated DVDs in a dingy hotel room.

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He is soon joined by an older gentleman who places some sort of protective barrier on the seat before sitting down. The older man is stark naked. Our hero is completely unfazed by this. The two men briefly commiserate on how the city is changing, invaded by outsiders who simply do not get what it means to those born and bred here; these new folks are recasting a beautiful thing in their own ugly image.