This film dealt with a lot of inner conflicts that African-Americans where unwilling to deal with at the time. Class struggles, light skinned vs. dark skinned and greeks vs. non-greeks. I just purchased it on DVD, but I remember seeing this film when it first came out in February of 1988 and it is just as powerful and entertaining now as it was then. It's amazing to look at this film now and see all of the actors who went on to successful careers afterwards, like Laurence(then Larry) Fishburne, Tisha Campbell, Giancarlo Esposito, Roger Guenveur Smith, Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, Darryl Bell, Rusty Cundieff(director of "Tales From The Hood"), Bill Nunn, Branford Marsalis, and of course I can't forget Samuel L. Jackson. Three years after this film came out a cousin from Seattle came to visit, I showed him this film and he was surprised to discover that there were actually historically black colleges and universities(HBCU's) in this country. He later attended Southern University here in Baton Rouge. That was the effect this film had and continues to have on young African-Americans and their views of HBCU's. 　　译文(2): 这部电影处理了许多非裔美国人当时不愿意处理的内心冲突。阶级斗争，浅肤色对深肤色，希腊人对非希腊人。我刚买了它的 DVD，但我记得看到这部电影时，它第一次出现在1988年2月，它是一样的强大和娱乐现在，因为它是当时。现在看到这部电影，看到所有后来成功的演员，像劳伦斯(当时是拉里)菲什伯恩、蒂莎 · 坎贝尔、吉安卡罗·埃斯波西托、罗杰 · 盖恩维尔 · 史密斯、卡迪姆 · 哈迪森、茉莉 · 盖伊、达里尔 · 贝尔、拉斯蒂 · 坎迪夫(《兜帽男的故事》导演)、比尔 · 纳恩、 Branford Marsalis，当然我不能忘记塞缪尔·L·杰克逊。这部电影上映三年后，一位来自西雅图的表亲来看我，我给他看了这部电影，他惊讶地发现，这个国家竟然真的有传统黑人大学(HBcU)。他后来就读于巴吞鲁日的南方大学。这就是这部电影对年轻的非洲裔美国人以及他们对 HBCU 的看法的影响。