Death Race 2000 (1977)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Wacky Race

Crazy patchwork quilt of a movie that is a delightful combination of the Wacky Races, Rollerball and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

This morbid black comedy is consistent and it is difficult not to laugh at the most distasteful of jokes. That this should be a send-up of the very bread and circuses' attitude to which the film panders is problematic, but the humor of a White culture that has legalized murder always wins through. (Inevitably the murderous obsessions lead to the foundation of suicide cults.)

Politically, the film makes the interesting point that panem et circem is necessary in an economic downturn to take the minds of the masses away from their suffering, decades of austerity and loss of the joy in conspicuous consumption. Along with the fact that this is an apartheid Whites' Only movie because they have decided to exercise their global position and call it 'minority privilege'.

This is a clever satire on the inherent excesses of White supremacy enlivened by an Evel Knievel-like turn as an automobile-obsessed racing driver.

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