Saturday, 13 September 2014

Accused


Also Known As:
Unknown
Year:
1988
Countries:
Canada… United States…
Predominant Genre:
Crime
Director:
Jonathan Kaplan…
Outstanding Performances:
None
Premiss:
After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered-on the attack.
Themes:
Alienation | Christianity | Compassion | Destiny | Emotional repression | Guilt | Loneliness | Original Sin | Personal change | Political Correctness | Pornography | Self-expression | Sexual Repression | Social class | White culture | White supremacy
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Unknown
Review Format:
Cinema

A movie that makes White men look like sexual savages and White women like accomplices in their own rape.

A clever thriller that questions whether there are clear enough distinctions between criminals and bystanders.

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Posted by Frank TALKER™ at 13:04
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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.



Albert Camus… (1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)