Alleen Maar Nette Mensen (2012)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 89 minuten
Alternative title: Only Decent People
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Lodewijk Crijns
Stars: Géza Weisz, Imanuelle Grives and Jeroen Krabbé
IMDb score:
5,7 (2.818)
Releasedate: 11 October 2012
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Alleen Maar Nette Mensen plot
David Samuels comes from an intellectual Jewish family in the chic Amsterdam Oud-Zuid, but is often mistaken as a Moroccan because of his appearance. David is a man with a remarkable mission: to find a ghetto fabulous queen with big tits and a big butt. His parents and friends think he's crazy, but David continues his quest fearlessly. This leads him to the Bijlmer, where he seems to be disappointed after a number of wild adventures. Will David ever find his ideal woman, a big dark sex goddess with booty and brains?
Actors and actresses
David Samuels
Rowanda
Bram Samuels
Judith Samuels
Naomi
Professor
Reviews & comments
timburton
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- 1296 messages
- 632 votes
Only But Neat People could of course have been a much more interesting film. The book of the same name is, whether people think it's great or actually just reading, a great basis for a rock-solid film. The biggest flaw was Weisz actually. While it didn't constantly annoy me, this is really just a mediocre actor. But the film was generally very comical and did not shy away by being straightforward and not afraid of opponents who would find the film racist. That was my biggest fear. That this feeling, which is so strong in the book (the relentless honesty), would be pushed a bit into the background by moral issues. Fortunately, that was not the case. Unfortunately, Crijns has chosen to omit a few strong parts from the book in the film, such as the adventure in Tenessee. The film work was startlingly good, which came as a big surprise to me. Stars of the film are Grives and Krabbé. I tried my best not to think about the book with this movie and that helps. If you are unfamiliar with the story and you see the film adaptation, you will be surprised by the original, comedic story. Unfortunately I can't give it more than a 3*. You have to be a very disastrous director if you don't want to make a nice film of such an interesting concept.
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Donkerwoud
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- 8696 messages
- 3960 votes
The written source material already didn't excel in subtlety and gentleness, but it feels wrong to always see the camera zoomed in on the corpulent derrières of black women. At one point I had had enough of the umpteenth panties that barely manage to cover a black buttock. For a film that wants to show that there are prejudices about every population group, it remains astonishingly rigid in the sexualization and stigmatization of one specific group, namely that of black women.
It's as if there is a perverse desire to portray this group in particular as one homogeneous group of black sluts oppressed by scruffy machos. In contrast to the white characters, the physicality of these black women is emphasized again and again. As if the filmmakers really wanted them to be nothing more than sex-hungry sluts. Nowhere does one of the oppressed women get the opportunity to respond in a mature way to the disgustingly one-sided worldview of the male characters.
Perhaps that shortcoming was already present in the original novel, but with the film adaptation at least a reprehensible misogyny comes to the surface. Not a fun movie and certainly not funny.
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