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From: JHN Joffe
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 08 March 2001

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This is the great masterpiece of American cinema. The film which tackles the moral complexity of America's war on drugs, unflinching in its depiction of drugs' effects on every strata of society. The visually stunning masterpiece by the auteur who gave us Erin Brokovitch.

Actually it is a mediocre, quite dull, film with a cringe making , poor kids get baseball fields, sentimental American Pie ending. Visually it is obvious, the Mexican bits are in tan because it is poor and dusty in Mexico, and the plotting is even more grotesquely obvious, the drugs Tsar's daughter takes lots of drugs for example. Because the cinema is a desert and we are thirsty pleasure nomads a drop of sweat falling on barren ground may seem like a crystal clear oasis of fresh water. It is not. And this film is nothing special.

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