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I am ready to never see the inside of a movie theater for a long long long while. "Edmond" was a pretty great movie, but it didn't take long before it became very clear why this was on the film festival circuit and not in theaters... Based on David Mamet's play of the same name, the racial undertones... I'm sorry, the racial overtones.... let's cut to the chase here, Edmond is a racist. And as he is kicking the living bejeesus out of a black pimp, throwing the n-word all over the place, I wondered how this would go over in a theater in East San Jose. I mean... I wouldn't want to be there... And in the interviews after, William H. Macy and Stuart Gordon (the director) told of several times during play productions when fights had broken out. No kidding. I wonder why. This wasn't a "Crash" type movie, it was just a movie about a racist, and it was terribly difficult to watch... and yet it strangely worked. If it makes it to the big screen, find a way to watch it. But be safe, heh. The 48 Hour Film Project was not as good as last year, and I slept through most of the second half. And now we go see... (Final Day! Final Day! Hurray!) The O Tapes or Soundman, Puzzlehead, Interview with Edward James Olmos, and the closing movie Water by Deepa Mehta. I can't wait to see it, first of all I loved Bollywood Holllywood, and also it appears there was quite a controversy over the film. Posted by Pischina at March 12, 2006 8:01 AMComments
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