One of the unique qualities of the screenplay, and his direction, is that this is a film where the principals are three black people and three white people, and yet the movie is not about black-white “relationships” in the dreary way of so many other recent movies, which are motivated either by idealistic bonhomie or the clichés of ethnic stereotypes. Every character in this film, black and white, operates according to his or her own agenda. That’s why we care so very much about what happens to them.
