Dolemite is My Name (movie review)

 

Ah... this is really such a good time to talk about the memories of watching this movie. A man, already in his adult years, starts his career as a cultural star. First, he records and collects his stand-up comedy show in a voice file with his own recording system. Even he himself designed the album cover photography. Slowly, he starts to get famous. At first, it was only the dark-colored people who enjoys his comedy album. But later, the light-skinned people start to also love it.

One day, Ray Moore (the man), or more famous as Dolemite, decides that he’s going to make his own movie.

He carries himself to the best people that he thinks will be suitable to become the Writer, Director, and Actor/Actresses of his Dolemite movie. So, a movie inside a movie. Not quite like an apple inside an apple, but still.

Apparently, he succeeds in persuading some of the big names he chases to become the Writer, Director, and Actor/Actresses.

Now, he only needs a filming company who wants to produce his movie. He applies everywhere, but the only answers he gets is a “no”.

So, again, as authentic as always, he decides to make his own movie production company. He hires some young people who are the experts of filming.

He delivers the movie quite spectacularly. He makes his team connect with each other. And, in the night of the gala premiere, he and some of the biggest people of his movie is inside a limousin, on the way to the gala premiere.

Dolemite weathers the storm of doubt aired by his friends about the possibility of low turnout in the gala premiere by telling them just how far they have come to make their own movie, how it is already a success no matter what happens in the gala premiere.

But, to their surprises, the gala premiere is packed with so so many people hysterically waiting for the stars of the so-called Dolemite movie.

They all smile and it was a night to remember for them surely.

I store this beautiful memory of having seen this movie as a kind of mental warranty for myself. For, one day, I may need to be reminded of the existence of this movie.