DOPE (Comedy)

For this week I watched DOPE. First let me start by saying I chose this movie mainly because when I went to highest rated Netflix comedies it was at the top and it actually looked interesting.  The movie is probably more of a dram/crime/comedy but I thought it was funny so it counts for me. So the movie is about these 3 nerdy, 90's hip hop loving geeks growing up in a really bad neighborhood in California. The main character Malcom, and his two friends Jib, a mainly hispanic/latino kid who clarifies later in the movie that he's 14% African, and Diggy, who at first glance most would think was a boy, but she's a girl and she is lesbian. Malcom and his friends end up going to a drug dealer named Dom's (played by ASAP Rocky) birthday party. A rival gang comes and starts shooting in the back room where a drug deal for molly is going on. While Dom is hiding he stuffs the drugs in Malcom's backpack.  The rest of the movie follows the three friends in their adventures to get rid of the drugs without getting caught. When Malcom goes for his Harvard interview he realizes that this is the man he was told to give his drugs to by Dom. Now he has to find a way to get rid of the drugs and still get AJ to help get him into Harvard. With the help of a college hacker and drugie they manage to pull of selling all the drugs. Malcom frames AJ in the end so that if he doesn't help him with Harvard and to stop AJ from killing him, the FBI would find that AJ was the one selling the drugs. In the end Malcom gets the girl and his acceptance to Harvard, and alls well that ends well. This movie definitely had a lot of funny scenes while pulling off many of the major themes and a good point of view/message, especially what in what Malcom eventually writes for his Harvard essay. I think this movie covers at least three of the main themes loss of innocence, individual vs. society and and triumph over adversity, and maybe even kind of man vs himself. All in all I really enjoyed this movie, I'd give it a 8/10.