American Pimp movie review
...es such as Charm, Fillmore Slim, and Gorgeous Dre. The film opens up with whites telling the interviewer what they think pimps are. Also mixed in with the documentary are clips from blaxploitation films trying to show the stereotypes of pimps. While some of these stereotypes are true, such as the perms and wild outfits, pimps are very well educated and well spoken. Another stereotype that some of these pimps frown upon is the stereotype that they give their prostitutes drugs. Giving them drugs is money that could be going in their pocket so they don’t give it to them. The pimps are there for the purpose to keep prostitutes from spending all their money on things such as drugs. They take away the money that the women move and give them food, shelter, clothing, and take care of other expenses, such as bailing them out of jail if necessary. They train the prostitutes to manipulate the men for money and in turn, the pimps must manage to manipulate the prostitutes. The prostitutes are also interviewed. They are shown as being submissive to their pimps. They talk about other women like the pimps talk to them. They all sleep with their pimps, and as shown early in the film, the pimps get attached to their hoes. All the pimps interviewed are black. All except the one who owns the Bunny Ranch in Nevada, where exchanging money for sex is legal. In contrast to the streetwalkers shown earlier in the documentary, who take their chances with potentially violent or disease-ridden men, these women even have medical benefits. After reading numerous reviews to this movie, many critics found the movie repulsive, distasteful, stereotypical, and/or just down right garbage. One critic even claimed to not understand the movie until listening to the Q&A with the directors, the Hughes Brothers, after watching the movie. They wrote that the pimping industry is a weird world, with its own style of dress, its own verna...