My Buddy, Mr J. Christopher Wilson is reviewing some movies and series. He has agreed for us to post his reviews here.
A spectacular cast and a different lens, YOU PEOPLE is the movie for Gen Xers (us old people) and Millennials and Gen Zers (young adults) to watch together.
YOU PEOPLE follows two late 20s and early 30s single people—she’s a black Muslim and he’s a Jewish white boy. Both are seeking love, but race, religion, culture, and tradition get in the way.
Well-meaning parents of adult children attempt to be understanding and accepting only to embarrass their children by their ridiculous and oblivious biases. The adult kids are left to navigate those clashing cultures themselves to varying degrees of success and failure.
Balancing bias with buffoonery, YOU PEOPLE explores love and race and family and tries to show real humans trying to do what they believe is right even when it’s wrong, or at least misguided. It does so by skewering everyone: the old and the young, the religious and cultural, the white and black. In all, we learn that love is more important than all of that other stuff, while acknowledging and validating the importance of all that other stuff to our identify, thinking, and actions. It’s balanced well, while calling everyone out and also not judging or choosing sides.
Once finished, we texted our 22-year-old and told her she needed to see it. I wish we had known what it was, because we would have scheduled an online watch party with her. Be advised: you’re going to be called out. Everyone is, so it’s ok. Live and learn. That’s what I did.
Grade BAvailable on Netflix
