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Metascore 61, viewers disagree


I didn't know Taxi Driver was also condemned by progtards. DAC was called “racist right-wing fantasy” by a critic.

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/dragged-across-concrete
A better review: https://quillette.com/2019/03/22/dragged-across-concrete-a-review/

As might be expected in today’s climate, the film is facing accusations of reactionary messaging and racism. The production company behind the film, Cinestate, previously produced a series of low-budget violent pictures including Bone Tomahawk (2015), Cell Block in 99 (2017), and The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (2018), and has been described as the purveyor of films that “reflect the Trump-era mix of fear of the outsider and paranoia about the government.” While these films do reflect the Trump era to a degree, the implication that they are exploiting “populist” anxieties for either ideological reasons (S. Craig Zahler has been called a “white supremacist”) or a quick buck, is hardly fair. In fact, this latest Zahler/Cinestate collaboration is doing something of which American politics (and filmmaking) are currently incapable: lending the deplorable demographic an empathetic ear. “Being called a racist,” a character complains in one deliberately provocative line, “is like being called a Communist in the ‘50s.”

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Read what I wrote in my "brutal movie" thread.

I'm curious what you think.

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But that's the point -- discredit any film that attempts to open an honest dialogue about American society. The powers that be want a very specific narrative put forth and they will lie through their teeth to enforce it. For those who are aware, these are terrifying times.

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