Poetic Justice [HD]

Un-Poetic misinterpretations !!
Originally , I wasn't going to write an online review about this film. Mainly because it came out , over a decade ago. However , I feel the need to defend it , from most of these other reviews.Therefore , I will explain two important points. 1) Alot of people dislike this film for the dialog. The film is based on people who are frustrated with the directions of their lives and the deterioration of their envioronment ( aka:hood ). The profanity might be abundant in the script , but it was coming from characters who vented their frustrations, that way.Not everyone in the hood cusses. But John Singleton's characters, do. Nobody protested Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas. I'm sure not every Italian cusses. 2) Alot of people say that there's too many things going on , in the movie. John Singleton said , in the commentary , that he deliberately , filmed that way. He was trying to cappture the realism of everyday life and exemplify the fact that things are still happening , irregardless of the...

Excellent Movie. Period.
This money is great. It shows a woman healing from the pains of her boyfriend being killed my gangsters. Also Tupac Shakur plays in this movie and does a great job. You see a side of him that you wouldn't see anywhere else. Instead of the gangster routine, Tupac plays a postman that meets Justice one day and the story unfolds from there. Great movie :)

Poetic Justice: A Street Romance
Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

- Maya Angelou

Life's been anything but easy for Justice (Janet Jackson), a 20 something hairdresser living in South Central. She lost her alcoholic mother to suicide at the age of 12 and the recent gang-related murder of her boyfriend has spiraled the young woman into a deep depression. She only wears black, is in a constant state of morose with a touch of sarcasm, and expresses herself through her poetry (written by Maya Angelou who appears as a critical, gossipy aunt in a brief scene). However, a road trip to a hair show in Oakland with a postal worker named Lucky (Tupac Shakur) forces Justice out of her loneliness and...

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