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Gimme the Loot

USA 2012
produced by
Dominic Buchanan, Natalie Difford, Jamund Washington for Seven For Ten
directed by Adam Leon
starring Tashiana Washington, Ty Hickson, Meeko, Zoe Lescaze, Sam Soghor, Joshua Rivera
written by Adam Leon, music by Nicholas Britell

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Sophia (Tashiana Washington) and Malcolm (Ty Hickson) are a team of teenaged graffiti artists - but of late, their artworks are routinely sprayed over by another graffiti artist gang, so much so that they come up with a silly plan to prove their superiority as graffiti artists: They want to spray their tags onto the iconic Home Run Apple of the New York Mets, which has so far happened only once in the eighties and is something legends are made of in the graffiti world. However, to get into the Mets' stadium, they need $500 in bribe money - which is an amount of money they can only dream of. However, they try their best, stealing and selling spraycans, sneakers and cellphones, selling dope and the like. But mostly their moneymaking schemes fail miserably.

During one of his dope deliveries, Malcolm runs across cute young Ginnie (Zoe Lescaze), a spoilt upper class rich girl whose parents are out for the weekend and who seems to just swim in money. Malcolm promptly falls in love with her, and she doesn't totally resent him either. However, that doesn't keep Malcolm from planning to rob her. Their heist goes horribly wrong of course when their lockpick Champion (Meeko) hasn't got the first idea about picking locks, and Sophia doesn't succeed in keeping her away from home long enough.

After all their failed attempts to come up with the money, they have the (less-than-)brilliant idea to produce a bundle of money out of newspaper clippings - but then their contact who's supposed to smuggle them into the stadium fails to show up, and their plans evaporate into thin air. However, at a party that evening, Sophia and Malcolm get a lot closer to one another than they have ever been.

 

What might sound like your typical MTV-compatible celebration of mainstreamed urban lifestyle driven by spitfire-editing to emphasize the "hey I'm cool"-factor and your interchangeable hip hop soundtrack just to underline how "urban" the film really is ... is actually something completely different: A brilliant and very subtle comedy about very little that manages to tell its story via relatively trivial (yet highly amusing) situations and strong characters and doesn't celebrate any old lifestyle (in fact, there's surprisingly little graffiti in a film about graffiti artists) but concentrates on the human factor. And it tells its story in a laid back way, comprised of long takes mostly - in fact, the film is not at all unlike the best movies of Eric Rohmer. And the film's music, mostly blues songs from decades ago, is a wonderful contrast to what one would expect from a film like this, but it complements the film's story rather nicely.

Totally recommended!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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