Reply #2: The whole movie is about the creation of that song [View All]

Having read your posts, RadioLady, I think you would actually really like the movie. It's about a pimp trying to use the limited options available to him to better his life. He's using the tools available to him (subpar equipment, the generosity of strangers, and the voices of his hookers) to try to make another way for himself, and the others around him in the process.

It's sad, gritty, and pretty damn funny in some places. But most of all it's just a really good look at being being a poor black man in Memphis, and how hard it can be to rise out of the situation he was basically born into. I really do think that it's a good look at the kind of people who were left to drown during Katrina, the kind of people that we as a society choose to not admit are still fighting to just stay alive.