I expected Antwone Fisher in the first few moments of the film after he beat up another Navy man, to be just another movie about some angry guy who overcomes prejudice and becomes an officer and a gentlemen...And that might have been cliched as we've had a lot of movies like that.
But instead we get a wonderfully nuanced character who is both shy and suffers from low self esteem and is a virgin...all of that because he was sexually abused as a child and it's scarred him as an adult. To me that is heart felt and original. And the real Antwone Fisher rose from being an abandoned and abused child living in poverty to writing a freaking movie! That's not fake or cliched, that's amazing.
But instead we get a wonderfully nuanced character who is both shy and suffers from low self esteem and is a virgin...all of that because he was sexually abused as a child and it's scarred him as an adult. To me that is heart felt and original. And the real Antwone Fisher rose from being an abandoned and abused child living in poverty to writing a freaking movie! That's not fake or cliched, that's amazing.