Good Hair

(2009)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 109 votes

Genres: Documentary, Comedy

Year: 2009

Runtime: 96 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Jeff Stilson

Cast: Maya Angelou, Крис Рок, Ниа Лонг, Ванесса Белл Кэллоуэй, Айс-Ти, Tanya Crumel, Kevin Kirk, Derek J, Freddie J, Jason Griggers

Plot

An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of the black community.

Chris Rock, a man with two daughters, asks about good hair, as defined by Black Americans, mostly Black women. He visits Bronner Brothers' annual hair convention in Atlanta. He tells us about sodium hydroxide, a toxin used to relax hair. He looks at weaves, and he travels to India where tonsure ceremonies produce much of the hair sold in America. A weave is expensive: he asks who makes the money. We visit salons and barbershops, central to the Black community. Rock asks men if they can touch their mates' hair - no, it's decoration. Various talking heads (many of them women with good hair) comment. It's about self image. Maya Angelou and Tracie Thoms provide perspective.