Diagnosis
Ice Cube’s character, Durrell views everything wrong in “First Sunday.” He feels that to show his son he loves him all he has to do is spend time with him instead of spending time showing him what kind of man he should be.
Instead of teaching his son values, he shows his son that he has no values.
Instead of showing his son the value of good honest work, he tries to demonstrate the value of being dishonest.
Remedy
This clichéd-overdone story of a father engaging in criminal activity to keep being able to spend time with his son is not only offensive, its not humorous. Any one smart enough to plan a crime is smart enough to go to school or keep a job.
There’s nothing funny about lousy fathers who thing they can make consistently bad choices and then think everything is okay because they say, “I love you.”
Contrast the father in first Sunday with the father in, “John Q” or “3:10 to Yuma.”
