First of all the plot is very simple. And that's a bad thing. It lies somewhere between Romeo and Juliet and the Brazilian Movie "Elite Squad" but with a soap opera tone that won't seduce anyone above 18 years old. I mean... it's VERY simple. Second comes the way it depicts Brussels and it so said gang life. And that's where the racist part comes in. (SPOILER ALERT, but mainly because the plot is sooo simple) The movie depicts a rivalry between two groups of people, one of which is a gang composed of young men and girls from the Congolese neighborhood and the other group is made out of a bunch of friends from a Moroccan neighborhood. The gang is involved in hard drugs dealing, prostitution, guns trafficking... I mean it's a "gang"; they have a mean leader who himself is the puppet of an older duke of the neighborhood. And on the other hand, the Moroccans smoke weed and sometimes steal a handbag but when they do so the movie depicts it as just a game they play in order to challenge one another. Somehow, the feeling you get is that the Black people involved in gangs are really bad people and Moroccans are not-so-bad-people because actually they're more a group-of-friends-rather-than-a-gang and if they get violent it's more because they are trapped in some moral issues. Now if you live in Brussels you would know that in real life it actually is the opposite that is happening: drug dealing and gun trafficking belongs mainly to the Moroccans of Brussels... the latter terrorists attacks on Paris and Brussels are here to prove it. If you go to the Congolese neighborhood of Brussels you will mainly encounter pot heads and nobody would ever sell you a gun. It mostly is a friendly neighborhood. So the question remains: why is the movie called BLACK? And why do they depict reality in such a twisted way. That's when you realize that one of the directors is from Morocco.

Worlds collide when Mavela, a teenage girl with ties to Brussels' Black Bronx gang, meets Marwan, a member of a rival Moroccan gang, at a police station, after they have both been arrested for theft. Aware of the consequences of getting involved with someone from another gang, they at first resist their attraction to one another, but they can only resist for so long. Just when they've started to imagine a different life for themselves, a terrifying incident reminds Mavela where she belongs.......From the plot summary, you'll instantly recognise it as Romeo & Juliet, which this film is loosely based upon. But bear in mind this isn't Baz Lurhmann's world, so don't expect The Cardigans to be playing over the fairy tale-esque cinematography.This is far beyond the realms of the star cross'd lovers, and even though the fundamental story arc involving the two lovers is basically the Bard gone bad, this is a gritty urban nightmare with much similarities to City Of God, and in some instances, The Warriors.And while each film in this obscure sub-genre is quite unique and gives you something to sit up and take notice at, they have one predictable trope they all share, it won't end well....It's a hard watch, from beginning to end, and despite moments of levity between the lovers, the film has an abundance of despair evident.It's a grimy film, oozing with dirt, anger, and hatred. And although barely any of the characters are likable, you cannot help but pity them and their families.Yes, they are striking fear into the locals, laughing at the police, but one occurrence can change the way these people feel about walking the street, and it does, my word does an occurrence happen in this film.It's not a film that you can watch with ease, it's asks many taboo questions, but never gives the answer that you desire.....there is no light at the end of the tunnel.It's a gripping urban nightmare, and although there are despicable acts depicted, it's an important movie, and should be seen.

A 15-year-old girl in a black gang in Brussels must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang. The city of Brussels, plagued by high rates of youth unemployment, is home to nearly forty street gangs, and the number of young people drawn into the city's gang culture increases each year. It's in this criminal milieu that directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah set Black, a pulse-pounding contemporary take on a Shakespearean tragedy. Worlds collide when Mavela (Martha Canga Antonio), a teenage girl with ties to Brussels' Black Bronx gang, meets Marwan (Aboubakr Bensaihi), a member of a rival Moroccan gang, at a police station. Keenly aware of the consequences of getting involved with someone from another gang, they at first resist their attraction to one another, but they can only resist for so long.

-Black and Belgian action, drama film directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah and set in the Brussels gang formation environment -Stars: . Martha Canga Antonio---Aboubakr Bensaihi---Sannao Bourrasse………-It is a pleasant picture to view leaving you in tension for the entire film, a film with a story in which a boy and a girl of rival gangs find each other and fall in love, their love is not possible by the opposing part of each a gang. The end and then afterwards considered this movie story has something of the love story Romeo & Juillie -Ith shows a hard reality of gangs which is also created by a prevailing poverty and less opportunity in society. –-The film is widely welcomed.