The Tenants (2005)
1/10
Long, boring unrealistic look at ? writing a novel?
23 March 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Unrealistic premise: New York rent controlled building occupied by sole individual who refuses to leave until he finishes his book. Writer meets Squatter, also a writer who is trying to finish his book. Statistically, I would imagine that even with 5 billion people on this planet this premise has never actually occurred in nature.

Silly relationship: The white, Jewish writer suffers an unlimited amount of verbal, racial and physical abuse at the hands of the black, militant, racist squatter, yet continues to attempt friendship.

This movie is actually such a silly contrivance, I am not sure what the point is supposed to be. That writers, of any race, are mentally unstable? That racism is something which must be endured by white, Jewish people who don't appear to be racists themselves? That hatred exists? That, if one person is hateful enough to another person, the other person will think they need to kill them? Which then justifies the hatred of the first person, who, in their last moments, then kills the person whom they stated many times needed to be killed for being white?
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