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Subject: Three Films I Just Watched

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Jimmy

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Date Posted: 06:46:48 09/23/07 Sun
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The first is one I've been wanting to see for some time. "Who Killed The Electric Car" is a Slap in my face. Not that it dogs Motown--in fact, these days, I enjoy that--but that I 'forgot' about the Electric Car. I worked on that Program for 2 months. Yet, I allowed the Big Three, Oil and the current Administration to erase it from my memory.

Look, most of the celebrities involved in this are lunatics but they're also right (though the sight of that CUNT Alexandria Paul in hand cuffs was quite exhilarating). Martin Sheen narrates and is surprisingly effective. There's also a nice-looking, well-spoken Red Head whose exuberance for her sales position was so motivating that I 'almost' broke out the want ads myself.

I don't know who directed this but he's obviously seen "The Corporation", Michael Moore's work and something tells me he may have ran with David O. Russell. The Moore muck-racking is evident but what it borrows from "The Corporation" is something I'd like to see more of in Docs. Sadly, we live in a time where Power Point presentations dominate our thought process. Therefore, it's important to underscore the points of your film and, like "The Corporation", Who Killed uses this to indict its enemies.

Opening with a funeral for the car was a bit odd but not odd enough for the Limbaugh types to exploit and turn 'these people' into wackjobs. I only assume he/they did that when this film came out.

Mel Gibson, not surprisingly, was an advocate for the vehicle.

I had a different reaction to "Far From Heaven" last night then I did when I first saw it in December of '02. I remember driving home and talking to my young MTV-inifluenced buddy and saying, "You know that sucked for the black dude and all but I wish things were still that way." His pre-programmed expression and subsequent reaction indicated he gave no thought to what I meant beneath the surface which was simply that "WE" had it made back then. The family was intact, the women weren't whores and all we had to do was pay lip service to the blacks we infrequently encountered.

Dennis Haysbert is so incredible in this. Although I've never seen a single episode of '24', watching "Breach" a few months ago I knew who he was. But then it began to dawn on me that I knew him from something else. No way! "Major League?" You bet.

Haysbert shows that by not flaunting one's insolences and carping at every opportunity that one can remain strong...if not stronger. He proves that if you venture into a museum or neighborhood where you are not wanted that politeness and pertinence will make one more inroads than audacity and brazenness. And Julianne Moore's character proves that good people will respond (And that she wasn't losing her mind because her husband was a homo in 1950's Hartford outer-inner circle).

And of course the idea of the film's use of 1950's narrative and score to underscore that these issues WERE there is quite brilliant.

"Gangs of New York" is the SHIT!

The brazen audacity of the Irish is meritorious. I've never been in a gangfight nor a riot as the rest of the city's Irish, Germans and Poles were--and I'll come back to that-- and that is because THEY WERE! Haysbert's character may harbor a degree of self-righteousness of contention but it's clearly healthy and certainly not smug or acrimonious.

Scorsese, though his loyalties obviously lie with his fellow Catholics, does not coat the fact that the non-natives simply didn't vent their mania by fixating it on the Natives and that they went after any black they could get their hands on. Granted, the black guy in the Rabbits ("Father, there's a Nigger in the Church!" is ultimately answered with a literal right cross after the backslider was told to go pray with the Natives) may have been a guise...but I liked it because I liked the idea behind it. I don't think his role was 75% earnest and 25% token and eventual pawn.

This begs the question: Does Scorsese hate Asians?

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