Mixing Nia / Love Isn't Always Black & White [VHS]

I must have been half asleep when I ordered this. I didn't like it the first time I saw it then had the nerves to buy it. I am going to donate it to a library.

I would recommend this movie. I enjoyed it. It was great seeing Karyn Parsons since Fresh Prince. Its exactly what I expected.

The movie has a simple premise. It's about a young woman, who's just struggling with her cultural identity. For a indie flick, it has a good story.

And Isaiah Washington too. Interesting to watch if you're biracial or come from that family type (I do on all sides including the in-laws :])

This film was amazingly good! Great performances by all of the actors. Only wish that I had know about the film sooner!!

Great movie. Definitely can relate to her problems. Love it!

Karyn Parsons, best known as Hilary from the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air," does a wonderful turn here as a bi-racial woman trying to carve out an identity for herself in the midst of professional and personal conflict. This movie shows us how difficult it can be to find your way in a society that insists on categorizing people when you don't easily fit into any one group. Although we may not have all of this character's baggage, "Who Am I?" is something that we all have grappled with at some point.When we meet up with the protagonist, Nia is leaning toward with her Black heritage and is trying to find some sort of authentic Black experience -- whatever that is. This leads her to quit her job with an ad agency that has assigned her to a campaign for malt liquor and to begin dating her writing instructor. The instructor (Isaiah Washington), who thinks that Nia is not Black enough, makes it his business to change her. She meets him in a class that she takes after she decides that she wants to be a writer. Nia is the product of an upper middle class home, has white friends, and has dated white men before. Washington decides that he need to counteract all that.Washington is very good here as the dreadlocked, blacker- than-thou, race man. Fine though he is, I would not date someone who felt like he had to make me over. He even goes so far as to reorganize her books separating the works of Black authors onto a separate shelf. Washington's character treats Nia like a project instead of a lover, and you get the feeling that being with him is her way of doing pennance for her perceived sins. She even gets her hair braided to appease him.In addition to being bi-racial, Nia is also a product of divorce, and her father (white and Jewish) points out to her that she identifies more with her mother and other African Americans than with him. This gets her to thinking about her life.Ultimately, she makes peace with herself and kicks her domineering man to the curb. She stops worrying so much about trying to fit in and decides to just live. Kudos to Alison Swan for a well-developed film.

I like to dig into a writer's mind, and figure out what message he or she is trying to sneak past the inevitable Hollywood vampires who have appointed themselves as God's Chosen Ones to guard the gate.The most articulate, well-educated, attractive character here is Lewis, played by Isaiah Washington -- black, college professor, up for tenure at an atypical young age, and -- gasp -- unabashedly pro-Black. So, of course the brother had to be taken down or this movie would never have been financed. And, he is, indeed, crucified just outside the Holy of Holies -- appropriately hung until dead, metaphorically speaking, in front of a crowd of white folks who have just left the temple of their god.Earlier, after he has lain with our virtuous Nia -- the virgin Isis who Hollywood has ordained must be saved from the evil influence of Osiris [Lewis] -- the writer has a big white guy [Set] drive up, stop behind them, and just stare, in a big white truck with G.O.D. written on the side.Hello ...Prior to Lewis' obligatory end, in the scene where Lewis is sitting at a table with Nia and her clueless, sexually depraved father -- a repulsive man who, after screwing around her mama, now gets off by making videos of himself having sex with younger women -- the writer manages to have Lewis perfectly express what should be, by now, the inarguable failure of 60's style integration -- that it allowed white liberals such as Nia's father to pat themselves on the back for "ending" racism at the expense of The Souls of Black Folks, folks who were simply moved from the plantation to the inner city.

Not worth watching