Snow on tha Bluff -- Urban gangster movie -- documentary or narrative?

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After reading about the movie in Filmmaker Magazine's: 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and then seeing it had premiered at Slamdance 2011, I had to check it out. It's a movie that was shot in an Apocalypse now style slum in ATL, it's called SNOW ON THA BLUFF. Curtis Snow is the main character, and "tha bluff" is his neighborhood.

I recently saw it at the Williamsburg International Film Festival, here in NYC. I have to say, it really surprised me, it brings up some social issues which society at large seems to ignore, and it was really INTENSE. Anyone heard about the movie? I recommend it, this is what Independent Filmmaking is all about.

Here's the movie trailer here,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGm9o37BNjM

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Spelling "tha" is so not gangster anymore.

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Yeah, real gangstas say "thine" now.

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Whoa, dude, I just watched the trailer now. That man pulled a crazy Halloween prank on those girls at the beginning!

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What social issues could there possibly be left that no one is aware of?

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That depends on what you mean by "no one".

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Not one person, but many, many persons.

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I think I used to buy heroin from that guy. Any way that preview makes it seem about as real as it gets but i'd have to see some more of it. That's the way shit is in some parts of atlanta and birmingham, that's why i don't go to either anymore. Just stay my ass in white-bread tuscaloosa and let the drugs trickle in to me.

EDIT: What makes it seem suspicious right off the bat is the age of those girls at the beginning. If you are that age and live in Atlanta you pretty much know to keep your dumbass out of those parts of town if you're trying to get that many drugs, there are colleges there

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It just show us what we need to know. From the film, we got more than we used to know. I like that!

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