One False Move (1991)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Subtle character-study of a crime drama that slowly insinuates itself into your emotions to devastating dramatic effect.

Underneath all the police procedural there are sophisticated analyses of White supremacy and ethnic-minority realism and of both of these as sources of a cultural identity thought to be needed for survival by the former while actually needed only by the latter.

Because no White can prove they actually are white, White supremacism has to do the job the biological sciences cannot. This unstable source of White pride requires a repression of the emotions such that activities like miscegenation are frowned upon in case such pride is seen as being nothing more than the product of cultural, political and personal insecurity. The invented phenotypal difference created by Whites leads to the kinds of inter- and intra-personal tensions explored by this movie.

Everyone, without exception, acquits themselves very well here in their performances; contributing to the slow-burn Southern Gothic atmosphere.

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