True Romance

Rating: 60%

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Also Known As:

Unknown

Year:

1993

Countries:

Predominant Genre:

Crime

Director:

Outstanding Performance:

Premiss:

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp & tries to sell it, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Themes:

Alienation | Emotional repression | Ethnicity | Identity | Loneliness | Materialism | Narcissism | Personal change | Self-expression | Sexism | Solipsism | Stereotyping | White culture | White guilt | White supremacy

Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:

Unknown

Review Format:

DVD

True Infatuation

Gleefully reminiscent of Roger Corman’s exploitation films, this is the usual self-indulgent film buffs’ movie from the unimaginative pen of Quentin Tarantino.

The characters are undifferentiated and use similar language as if born in the same neighborhood. Patricia ARQUETTE’s role is underwritten as the writer is a gynophobe – yet she does well despite this.

Only Blacks come across as real people – reversing the Hollywood norm – yet this genuinely-funny dialogue becomes repetitious. The kind of writing that attracts good actors who can make the words sound like poetry, but no more than a series of set-pieces rather than a coherent drama. Moreover, Christian SLATER, as the lead, lacks star presence.

Enjoyable nonsense, but there is no true love here - either between the central characters or for the audience’s intelligence.

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