Review of Diary of a Tired Black Man (2009) by Joshua H — 09 Jun 2009

DIARY OF A TIRED BLACK MAN: (2008) You shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, so they say. By first glance The Diary of Tired Black man seem liked some watered-down, wanna-be Tyler Perry bullshit, so I thought. I actually watch it and it's in fact much much worst. Well on a basic aesthetic level, I thought the film was quite shitty. The acting was piss poor, the characters false, inauthentic, and under-developed. The premise of the film is essentially, black men (good) are disgruntled and tired for one main reason: the angry man-hating black woman that the director defines as ABS (Angry Black Woman Syndrome). Everything about about this film is Director/Screenwriter Tim Alexander, though he premise is interesting, his execution, theories, and point of view is pretty embarrassing. The movie is cut between an Alexander's narration, a fictional dramatization of relationship between a tired black man and a angry black woman and THE MAN ON THE STREET INTERVIEWS (which is this movie's only saving grace).

The movie is at the same patronizing to Black women that aims to "educate" while condemning them as the MONSTER, which will naturally create a defensive reaction.. Alexander seems to lack psychology range of black women or any woman for that matter to be a good arbitrator for this subject matter.(this is clear in the director commentary). The movie has allot of interesting points, but its lost cause the director comes from the background of being a lame-ass, chode and bring too much bitterness into project. You can tell he holds Angry Black Women responsible for dogging him, despite him being a "nice, good black man" as if not beating your wife, going to church, and being an upper-class professional makes you a REAL MAN. LAME! VERDICT: This movie is so bad, it's AWESOME! Must SEE!