Diary of a Tired Black Man

2009
Diary of a Tired Black Man
5.3| 1h48m| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 2009 Released
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Diary of a Tired Black Man is a simple story about the complex relationships between black men and black women.

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amy-duru Watching the video for the first time and I know there is a point to this.. Yes black women get angry the rate however differs from person to person but honestly so do black man. The point of view here is one from a black man's point of view but if we have to flip the coin we'll see why black women are angry surrounded by bums for husbands, boyfriends and life partners or drug dealers who care for no one but themselves, sloths who just know how to get there when it's time to eat but not know how to work, violent angry men who have no control over their anger and as a result of their cunning facade are able to get women to marry them... Sometimes society is to blame coz nice a woman gets to a certain age without a man it becomes a taboo n she marries whoever just to belong... There are soo many factors that could affect a woman's psych but d same goes for men.. However why didn't the editor edit the point of view segment coz d main characters business was all out there.. Hahahhahahahaha soo sorry I couldn't help but notice it... He tried sooo hard to cover it with his bottled water but naaaaaaaa brothers got huge apples... Back to seriousness the guy going on about decision making should please remind himself how many decisions he's ever made that's been sooo accurate MR PERFECT.. I like those who made it clear that it ain't a black thing but a human or people thing this stereotype of black women is much cause white people have the same attitude and is even worse.. Am sure some of these men speaking even hit their women.. However regardless of race or color truth or sex is if any body has not and cannot find themselves they can never know what they' want.. Gross with the spitting that's just gross.. I feel the lady psychologist in green she made sooo much sense. But em question why did jimmy divorce Kimora lee Simmons if he is sooo perfect abi she get issue to? In summary as much as I see some sense to this movie it's biased in making all black woman look monstrous and all women look we all have issues while the black men are still very much part of the problem and not holy... I need me a white guy please coz I can't seem to find any good black men...
angel_jackson91 I saw the movie on Showtime and I felt like I was watching something created and produced by the Ku Klux Klan. Unlike Diary of a Mad Black Woman where the viewer sees two types of men, Diary of a Tired Black Man is deliberate in its hate for black women. It was thought provoking in that it revealed that black women are still struggling with the century old pain that stems from slavery but it is evident that we must deal with this pain alone. This movie and America try to tell us what we are not but as a black woman who has never hit, yelled or mistreated a black man, I know who I am and this movie as taught me to be proud of black me. This will never matter to Tim Alexander who is involved in an interracial relationship anyway but to those black women and black men who still believe in each other- keep your head up.
karmella Lately, the conversations around the demise of the black family and black relationships have mostly given a voice to black women. Even more specifically, the focus has been narrowed to a sub-population of women, financially and academically successful black women, as if the rest of the community has no voice and does not matter.Finally, Diary of a Tired Black Man explodes on to the scene to shake the dust off of the trite "good black man shortage" formula and open up the dialog to the entire community. What really caught my attention is how we finally get to hear from black men speaking with black men. No, it's not locker-room talk about sexual escapades. Rather, these men are giving first hand accounts of their struggles within relationships.The film is an entertaining and illuminating collage of street interviews and short vignettes. The vignettes, illustrative autobiographical shorts that highlight the struggles of the film maker's past relationship, bring together the myriad of thoughts, confessions, and accounts of the real people who are interviewed. I found that the theatrical interludes worked well juxtaposed with the impromptu interviews. I gave it one less star than ten because I didn't think that all the the acting was executed as well as it could have been.Diary of a Tired Black Man is an important piece that I'm sure will make an impression on anyone who views it. For the first time, I could see very clearly how: * The notorious "attitude" that many men complain about is actually very common, contrary to my previous belief. * The "attitude" often manifests as misdirected anger and verbal abuse. * The broad generalizations about women that sound unfair to my ears actually come from the hurt that men have experienced in past/ current stressful relationships and family experiences.I gave this film a 7/10 stars because I love the intent and the approach and I believe it's an important project, but the acting was lacking and the accompanying online forum contains a suspicious amount of hype-generation/ hoaxing from fictitious writers.
mercuryix2003 I looked at the external reviews for this film; all of them were positive. That's pretty amazing, as very few films ever made have received only good reviews. Then I noticed that the IMDb rating is only 2.9 out of 10, one of the lowest ratings on IMDb.It's also peculiar that out of 80 ratings, not one person wrote a review. These facts don't seem to add up.The maker of the film didn't choose only the good reviews and exclude all of the bad ones, did he? That would be rather biased. However, almost all of the external reviews I read, even though they rated the film highly, said the filmmaker was very biased in his presentation of black men being mistreated by their unappreciative black women.I really don't know what the rules of IMDb are as far as what external reviews are included or not; whether the filmmakers have control over what is posted regarding their films.It just seems something rather skewed is going on; a film highly rated by certain critics I hadn't heard of before, but yet with one of the lowest ratings on IMDb.