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mixed feelings (spoilers)

posted 17 years ago by pimphand
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first off well done to the filmmakers for makin a decent bit of cinema. 90 minutes of british gangsta...felt totally realistic. i've read some of the other comments on this board, and while the film is far from perfect, how about a bit of appreciation for someone who's made an effort to get off his backside and actually make a film instead of talkin bout it? especially from Britain. We could do with a couple more like this one if you ask me.

however, goin deeper into the film, i wasn't diggin the final message. yeah, drugs are bad...you know that Vinny Pushy and Rage ain't gonna prosper from their dealings, and they all end up dead...( i thought they'd end up in jail but there you go), but the fact that its the cops who killed them off for their own profit? No sense of restitution for the cops or Hope, who is also guilty of murder? Nah, didn't like that. Also, maybe its coincidence i don't think this is on purpose by the filmmakers, but the bad guys (dealers) are black, all the "good" guys (cops) are white. wouldn't it have been a decent idea to maybe have a black police officer in the mix somewhere? even if he felt torn between the good guys and bad guys that would've been interesting.

Anyway, thats all in the scriptin and i can appreciate it for what it is. i picked up this film simply because it was british made and was low budget. i own it on dvd and i've got no plans to send it back. support british film, thats what i say.

"Bet you I can throw this football over them mountains there."

[–] Dambala 17 years ago

the white men may have been cops, but I wouldn't describe their role in the movie as "good guy". They commited murder.

[–] Hazzer_99 16 years ago

I know they were corrupt cocaine-dealing bastards, but who did they murder? I don't remember any murder. In fact, I remember the big guy telling his partner in the hospital at the beginning never to loose sight of what it is all about, that being that innocent people shouldn't get caught in the middle of the gang violence.

Go to the loo, 'cause all the *beep*'s coming out your mouth instead of your a-hole...

[–] aaron-leaver 17 years ago

Gday mate
I found a different perspective on the whole "good guy bad guy thing".
Hope started out as relatively "innocent" but was pushed into the killing by threat to her remaining family and, perhaps, her brutal assault.
That being said she then went on to sell cocaine so didnt remain, if she ever was, totally innocent.
The cops themselves were obviously corrupt but they were also out to get "vengeance" for the waitress who was killed.
Shining Knights?
No.
Baddies?
Perhaps not.

If it was the film makers intent to portray the darker skinned people as baddies and the lighter skinned people as goodies I dont think that they did it well.

This movie was fairly poorly made but I enjoyed it all the same and gave it an 8/10

aaron