If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Disturbing yet enthralling

The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I get it. This is Elizabeth Woods' first feature film. Making movies is really hard. Let alone a good one. But that doesn't excuse the fact that this movie has some of the most boring characters I've seen in a long time. There's no depth to them at all. Our main protagonist (Leah) basically only cares about getting her boyfriend out of jail (whom she just met by the way, so I have no idea why she's putting herself into all this trouble to get her retard boyfriend out of prison).. and that's it. That's the whole plot. This movie brings nothing new to the table and the same story has been told numerous times before. I don't even get why she went out of her way to prevent her boyfriend from getting jail time, if she's just out screwing other guys anyways. It makes no sense. It's hard to sympathize with any of the characters, because they're all just really boring a**holes. I don't know how to end this review.. watch it if you've already seen every other movie that's ever existed ever and you feel like wasting 90 minutes of your life you'll never get back

I enjoyed this film very much. especially the character OF Blue, played by Brian Marc. However I got a very different take on this film than most of the reviewers. Most seem to think a lot of it has to do with white privilege. I disagree. While it's true that Chris Noth, as the lawyer does bring this up, I really see very little of it in real evidence in the film itself. I see the film more as a crime drama about drugs, with a bit of a Westside Story/Romeo and Juliet love story thrown in. At the beginning Leah and her girlfriend Katie share an apartment and are only interested in scoring some drugs to remain high. But a chance meeting with Blue trying to buy drugs from him and his friends changes things. There is an instant attraction of Leah to the handsome Blue. The attraction is mutual, and the pair begin a sexual relationship, that build into a true friendship. This to the chagrin and dismay of both Katie and Blue's friends. Leah may have been self centered and just out for a good time at first, but she risked her own life to save Blue many times in this film. She could have easily walked away when he was arrested, but instead visited him often in prison, tried to appease his drug dealer, and got him a lawyer. She loved him! Those that claim she was privileged need to look at this only from what is shown in the film, not what we see in real life. At the beginning of the Film we find out that Blue's nickname is "Sad" He tells Leah it's because he is sad all the time . He says until he met her. She tells him she left home and came to New York in search of something different. She was not from a wealthy family either. Her life was also sad. Her lack of being arrested had more to do with luck than white privilege. Blue by his own admission was in prison for his third arrest. Leah on the other hand was never caught. When he was arrested at the drug dealer's they were not standing together, she was in the cab. When he was arrested, at the diner she was inside eating, he was outside. For her she was not in the wrong place at the wrong time like Blue was. She stuck by Blue at every juncture, and even convinced his friends to do the same. She was surprised at the end by the marriage proposal, but realized she loved him and would have gone through with it. The only thing tat stopped it was Blue killing the drug dealer. We never see what happens to him after that, but it was clearly self defense. The dealer attacked them first and would have killed both of them. The last scene of the film is why I couldn't give it 10 stars. I found it confusing, and left too many loose ends. We don't see Blue, but Leah is clearly in a classroom. But why, and where? At the beginning of the movie, she was not in school, she was working at a media company, and screwing around with her boss. Is she a high school dropout who went back to school? Or is it a College classroom? Maybe she is taking pre-law and trying to get Blue out? In either case Blue was always trying to get her clean and off drugs. He told her from the start he doesn't do girls that do drugs. I say that seen shows at the least, that she got clean for him, and probably is still with him, fighting for his freedom.

During the publicity blitz for this movie director and writer Elizabeth Wood made a big deal about how this was based on her real life experiences, how unshocking it was (while simultaneously playing up that their were tons of sex scenes and nudity to play up the shock factor) and how unfair it was that white women like herself were able to dabble in drugs for fun in college, while their Latino and black peers were treated like criminals for far lesser offences. Now all these things led me to expect a much different movie, but watching White Girl I was almost bored by how tame and basic it was and how little it had to say beyond that one message. Morgan Saylor plays Wood's alter ego Leah. Moving into a cheap apartment in a bad (i.e. predominately Latino) neighbourhood with her friend Katie, Leah is immediately attracted to some young Latino men she sees hanging around her street corner. One night, bored and out of weed she introduces herself to them. When they refuse to sell to her she later meets one of them, named Blue, and invites him up to her apartment. They quickly fall in love and Leah helps him upsell his cocaine at exorbitant prices to her wealthy white friends. Of course this all predictably goes bad and Leah lands in a dangerous situation where she feels compelled to save Blue, who has landed in prison. The strange thing is how boring and formulaic this all feels. I watched a scene with Morgan Saylor bouncing around in a rave with her top off and all I wondered was when the movie would be over. We watch Leah make manic decision after ridiculous decision always protected by the fact that she is young, middle class and white. But it's hard to feel for a character when she's her own worst enemy and you can see her mistakes coming a million miles away. Another thing is, if Wood was so hell bent on showing how white people have the privilege of getting away with things that their black and brown peers can't telling the story from the perspective of the white girlfriend was a huge mistake. It's too bad, I really had high hopes for this, but it fell short. A more interesting take on millennial hedonism and race and class in America is Spring Breakers which is over the top and ridiculous in a way that packs more punch than White Girl.

Likened to Larry Clark's controversial Kids, White Girl sheds light on an often known, but cloaked, New York City lifestyle, riddled with malice and a fleeting sense of love and acceptance. Morgan Saylor's performance is reminiscent of Rachel Miner in Clark's Bully, and her wanton romance with co-star Brian Marc offers viewers a titillating look into the makings of a bad romance. Director Elizabeth Wood seems to have a similar taste in story and directing style as Clark, and, following this directorial debut, her future filmography seems promising. The story delves deep into the examination of 'white privilege' and the grips of a disadvantaged, urban class. While the romance between Saylor and Marc's characters may seem fanciful and impractical, Wood invites us to suspend our disbelief and open our eyes to an alarming reality that faces millennials in love. And by the film's end, just like Saylor's character, Leah, we are left asking what we would do in the name of love. The on screen chemistry between all of the characters seemed genuine, believable, and compelling. The most enjoyable aspects of the film were letting go as a viewer and following a seemingly ordinary college student into a dark world characterized by drugs, sex, and, what should be, reggae-ton. It's not a world many have traversed, but one that has aimed to seduce many of us in our youths. The soundtrack accompanying the scenes makes the film feel like a celluloid of simultaneous nostalgia and insanity. Can a young, White girl attending college in New York fall into the hands of a charming drug dealer? The plot is far from implausible, as some of the scenes may lead on, and it's a journey that at times is ugly and rife with melancholy.The film does not bear much re-watch value, but it does hold strong as the first edition in a hopefully favorable series of films that explore the "underground" of urban teens and their escapades.