Lines are crossed, lives are lost, daily victims become the neighborhood’s casualties of the cross fire.īeyond the expected violence and drugs is an unexpected side of Curtis – his philosophical side.
The vicious cycle of violence respects no boundaries. The twist of fate arises when Curtis becomes the unsuspecting victim of the very violence he enacts upon others. However, one out-of-towner does not so easily submit to defeat and exacts revenge on Curtis and his close network. He ekes out a living as a stick-up man, robbing dealers and selling their stashes. The film depicts an Atlanta tougher than the Tyler Perry version we’ve grown accustomed to seeing that makes even Chris Robinson’s ATL (2006) look soft.Īs in the opening scene, Curtis pounces on the unsuspecting. The Bluff, an acronym for “Better Leave You Fucking Fool,” is a crime-ridden neighborhood in Atlanta, ranked in 2010 as the #1 most dangerous neighborhood in the city and cracking the top 5 list of most dangerous neighborhoods in the United States. The film reminds us that what for some are stereotypes, are for others ingrained circumstances of everyday life. Snow reeks of the kind of dirty laundry most blacks frown upon with a moment’s mention, without taking a step further to judge the book by its content as opposed to its cover. Now the proud owner of a new gadget, Curtis turns the camera inward as if to say: if these college kids thought my world was so interesting, then who best to show it, but me? He begins in the making of a documentary about his life – complete with its drug raids, its baby momma drama, and its jail sentences. Curtis hustles his way into their car and in a matter of minutes, their fears are realized when he robs them of their money and video camera, though the students do manage to escape with their health and car in tact. They meet Curtis Snow on the street corner, who at first, seems like a pleasant enough drug dealer. So in they go, fingers crossed and wearing nervous middle class smiles, silently reassuring themselves that nothing will go down. The students fear being carjacked in downtown Atlanta, but their desire to capture the real-life hood on camera and get some drugs while they’re at it, outweighs their fears. Snow on tha Bluff creeps from outside of the hood looking in, as three college students venture out of their comfort zones and into the hood – armed with all the fears, urban legends, and preconceptions of the ghetto on their sleeves.
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