As i watched this movie I thought to myself, "what has happened to the black community?" In the movie all the people had to travel outside the neighborhood to get jobs, they all lived inside a huddled corner where drug dealers are allowed to roam freely, and what terrifies me is it looks like its always the black mans fault. Are we truly heathens? Are we that ignorant to see that this hateful deceitful world thrives off purposed intent, that sometimes things happen for a reason?I am not convinced that black people are the sole source of their problems, every time we have tried to unite, we have been robbed of our leaders, every time we try to branch out, we are left the abandoned rubbish that others leave behind to escape us. Its time we wake up, and begin to act like citizens that police our communities rather than losing our people to lifetime sentences, and leaving the children to learn for themselves how wicked life can be.I'm sure that this might be somewhat accurate about the area of baltimore that these people live in, but I also see that any place whites have abandoned, so have the businesses, and the money goes out therefore the jobs are gone, the police force is minimum and the people are stuck with that American dream that tends to contribute to living a good carefree life, you know, like the people we idolized on television?. This does not make sense. Something has got to give.Sure this is not about just us, but about every ghetto across the nation, and right now this isn't about every race, because one race is being targeted in this rough somber picture about neglectful negroes circling inside a make-believe prison of their own internalized fears and physical addictions to chemical incarceration. I am sure that we need to be more rigorous about teaching the youth, being more resilient about how we need to stay close even when we spread apart. This is not just a problem in baltimore, its all over the united states. Something has got to give.

In one word The Corner =brillance. Charles S.Dutton displays masterful storytelling in the stories of crack addicts. Sean Nelson contunies to show his dramatic range as an actor and he has a carrer ahead of him. But the acting standouts are Khandi Alexander & T.K. Carter as the parents of Nelson's character.

It's great to see a bunch of veteran actors getting down. The industry should take a look at this show and learn something. One of the most well acted shows I've ever seen. Well directed also Charles Dutton did a fantastic job. What I really liked was the fact that it looked like a documentary and a film at the same time. Excellent!

"The Corner" is some wonderful television. Everyone should see this to better understand what the hopelessness of inner city life in major American cities is like. I find my self horrified but unable to turn away from the reality of the life this inner city family is trapped in. The most painful sequences are the flashbacks to the life before drugs and the eventual fall into them. It is interesting to watch as the seemingly small decisions the characters make early in their lives change the rest of their years. Watch it if you have the opportunity and if you don't, seriously consider HBO as they have wonderful programming like this all the time.