She Hate Me is a 2004 Spike Lee movie. And I feel like Spike and Woody Allen are in the same place...both amazing film makers when they were younger, and both now making films that have potential, but miss, as Max Smart would say, by that much!
This movie had a lot of themes I liked, a lot of ideas that I liked. But they just did not come together very well. Maybe Lee put too much in here, or tried to have too many ideas. I don't know, but it was convoluted where it should have been straight forward and messy where it should have been clean.
It doesn't have a great plot to begin with, and that thin plot cannot take as much as Lee tries to hang on it. A man loses his job in the corporate world, because he is not corrupt. It turns out his ex is now a lesbian and she wants him to impregnate her and her girlfriend. And after he does that, she starts hiring him out to all her lesbian friends. Lots of them!
Lee uses this as a way to address fatherhood, and the responsibilities of that, especially in the black community. But he adds in themes of corporate America's corruption, the ugliness of the Bush administration, Watergate, the hypocrisy of politicians, and a few more things. And he tries to make it funny at the same time wanting us to take his themes seriously, and then switches to drama.
Again, I like some of his themes...most of them maybe. But not in one movie.
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