exist to a point where it is not even necessary to speak a word. They have a shared understanding of this situation, which makes it easy to laugh and carry on with what they were doing.The intimacy in womens friendships also is such that a close friend can help things come out of you that would never come out otherwise. Nina dated Darius in this movie but during the time they broke up, her friend encouraged her to hang out with one of Darius friends Hollywood. Hollywood does in fact try to take Nina out on date, but I dont think that she would have gone if she did not get the idea and confirmation that it was acceptable from her friend.Male/male relationshipSavon and Darius In Chris Inmans Article, Friendships Among Men the authors makes some interesting comments about characteristics of Male friendships. Some of these apply to the characters Darius in Savon in this movie. The key feature of this article is the assumption that unlike female friends men are more likely to engage in activities rather than in conversations about the relationship.(Inman, 106) By this he means that in order for men to know that they are good friends they do stuff together, they do not have conversations about the fact they are friends.Darius and Savon play pool in one scene of this movie. While them playing pool does in fact confirm part of Inmans theory, it also does not account for the four other times you see these friends talking and not doing any activity. When they are at the pool hall Darius has just had sex with Nina for the first time and while they are playing he asks Savon, Do you believe you are with your soul mate? This may be a sore subject for Savon because at this point in the movie Savon and his wife Troy are separated. They do not ever talk about why she left, you just see her leaving and taking their son with her. They dont talk about it much but then Savon questions Darius if any of this talk about soul mates has to do with his new...
