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The premise is kinda ridiculous, but...

posted 11 years ago by Thrill_KillZ
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I'm gonna watch the film anyway. The idea of two black guys that are "social scientists" robbing a bank to understand the racial dynamics of a small town's law enforcement is an incredible ineffective and ill advised unintelligent way too learn anything. Very little will be learned, except maybe that bullets hurt way more than you thought they did.

Regardless of your race, posing as as bank robber in ANY town, small or large, will get you shot. Granted though in some small towns being black may very well accelerate the process due to fear more than racism(citizen wise). Many small towns in the US have yet to fully integrate & "catch" up with the rest of the world and in turn have fear. As I have yet to see the film and don't know how the police will be portrayed, whether it's realistic or the stereotypical cliche backwoods sheriff type, any further discussion is moot, but hopefully the film will be smart and bring the right questions to the surface without stereotyping EITHER race in the process to make for a proper discussion afterwards(I know I'm reaching here but wth)

[–] salamon90210 11 years ago

it makes perfect sense if you think about it long enough

[–] NapoleonBender 11 years ago

Are you really saying it's not racist to be scared of people of different races?

[–] Thrill_KillZ 11 years ago

Lol, good point. I was envisioning a few little old ladies in a small town that hear all these bad things about other races, their crime statistics. Personally what I meant to say was some folks are merely victims of their own ignorance, misinformation in gossip or certain news programs and certainly things they may have read on the internet, add all that to a small town that has yet to be racially integrated and you end up with.....? You can label it as racism, but there are many shades and "sub-genres" that can apply to specific situations.

But if you consider the above you can see where fear can be generated from lack of information and especially lack of social interaction, fear of the unknown maybe.

Also being uncomfortable or even afraid in a situation where you are surrounded by a different race is very common. Imagine yourself in Iraq, most Western people would be uncomfortable & or afraid of the people around them there, but that doesn't automatically make them racist imo.

[–] hindsights5150 11 years ago

it's not about what you think it is

[–] PAPICHOLO1 10 years ago

You don't "pretend" to rob a bank 4 a racial experiment,hence the whole concept of this movie is bs.The bank was robbed end of story,you don't pass go,you don't get 2 hundred dollars,you go directly to jail.No get out of jail free card 4 this.

[–] jhonny20041433 10 years ago

Looks like they picked the right dimwitted towns to rob, to get the simpleton sheriffs to say certain things on tape therefore being able to walk out free.

[–] aimot 8 years ago

Twist was also ridicilous. So they returned counterfeit money and kept the real one and noone in the bank noticed the difference ? Even every grocery store has nowadays counterfeit money detectors..

[–] featheredsun 10 years ago

I gotta say it was an interesting movie and kept my attention the whole way. There ARE some good thoughtful moments and the plot is somewhat believable even if it's far-fetched.

Here's my real problem though: I was actually kinda left disappointed by the final plot twist with the Sheriff. I think it sold out the character that had been building up thus far to go for a cheap make-over. As if the director felt we need to feel a certain way about him to excuse the final action sequence, so to hell with all the behaviour we'd already seen. It's disappointing, and not just because I wanted racial absolution - it's disappointing scripting. See the tropes for "Sudden Downer Ending" and "Diabolus ex Nihilo."

[–] jhonny20041433 10 years ago

Fear?

Sounds like an excuse to me.

[–] freemanpatrick7 10 years ago

Is not all prejudice, racial or otherwise, born out of ignorance?

[–] robatmuskoka 10 years ago

the experiment works !

[–] vorion5 10 years ago

Completely ridiculous. They did steal and they were the only black people in those particular rural towns. You cannot get out of trouble just because you used a fake/unloaded gun or because cops call you boy a few times. In any crime investigation race is a basic identifier like age or sex. If they really wanted to show them being provoked into losing the tape they should have gone all out. Beatings, more racially charged language, whatever. Lamest redneck racists ever.

[–] Prismark10 10 years ago

They were rednecks that actually tried to be nice!

Its that man again!!