One of the characters is shot dead, after which the high school kids hold an inconclusive discussion about the meaning of it all. Then there is the business of Nut, the angry youth across the street, who wants to date Nikki and eventually forces a violent confrontation at a skating rink. Fine, except the original remark seems contrived - stuck in to force them into an argument - and, in context, Zack's remark is more affectionate than offensive. Zack takes Nikki to a party, where, in an awkward scene, she overhears him telling his friends, "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice." This enrages her, and she breaks off their relationship until Zack apologizes and wins her back again. The implication is never made clear, nor is the relationship between father and son well-handled later, Zack tells Nikki "you know how my father is" - but the problem is, we don't. There is a badly handled scene in which Zack, Nikki and the father have breakfast together, and it is implied that the father would like to sleep with his son's girlfriend. His mother is dead, and his father (Sharkey) apparently has only one goal in life, to have sex as often as possible.
#ZEBRA HEAD MOVIE#
The movie is also awkward in the way it handles Zack's home situation. Fine, but since they're not explained, the scenes are a dead end. I under stand from an interview with the director, Anthony Drazen, that these scenes are part of an environmental subplot about natural gas seeping to the surface.
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There are, for example, a couple of scenes in which another neighborhood boy, who is never really explained, lights fires in his lawn.
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Surrounding this story are all sorts of loose ends. Dee is all right about his best friend dating his cousin, but there is outspoken anger from another young black man in the neighborhood, Nut ( Ron Johnson), who wants to date Nikki himself. Zack's father ( Ray Sharkey), an unprincipled womanizer, approves of his son dating any woman. Nikki's mother is totally opposed to her daughter dating a white boy. Their romance causes ripples in their families and high school circles.