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- 21 & Over
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- needed to precede following dl
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- 93 minutes (Uncut)
- Review Format:
- DVD
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- 2012
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- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Directors:
Directors Jon Lucas Scott Moore - :
- None
- Premiss:
- Student celebrates his 21st birthday with his two best friends, the night before a medical school interview.
- Themes:
- Advertising | Aggression | Alienation | Capitalism | Christianity | Coming-of-age | Courage | Curative | Emotional repression | Erotophobia | Family | Free Speech | Guilt | Gynophobia | Identity | Individualism | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Parasitism | Passivity | Personal | Personal change | Political | Preventive | Self-Esteem | Sexual Repression | Stereotyping | The West | White culture | White people | White supremacy
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Sex-avoidance
The usual vaguely‑amusing White supremacist claptrap from a culture that openly‑assumes ethnic signifiers to be “meaningless”; while continuing to exploit them as if they were only significant for other ethnicities.
For racist reasons, Whites here redefine racism to mean any reference to their skin color; while any reference to anyone else’s is deemed acceptable - to Whites. None of the ethnic issues the film raises (eg, the Model minority stereotype) are explored comedically nor dramatically; leaving the movie with a large emotional and thematic lacuna at its center.
The characters are not particularly likable and their ethnic differences are not used as the basis of any kind of involving drama and/or culture clash. Eschewing the let’s‑get‑laid pseudo‑machismo of similar teen and twenty‑something movies, this one focuses, instead, on copious consumption of the White man’s drug of choice: Alcohol.
This pretense that all ethnicities are much the same is ludicrous since a) Whites, in real life, do not act as though they believe this; and, b) the various world cultures are often fundamentally quite different and sometimes quite incompatible with one another. For example, there have been few White Jesuses, Nelson Mandelas, Buddhas, Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, etc; speaking volumes for the lack of morality inherent in White culture – while also being the main reason People of Color avoid Whites.
This White amorality explains why the Jewish character here has more personality than his White trash friend and, indeed, even his Asian mascot – whose only dramatic function is to suggest Asians study too hard and, so, have no personal life. Yet, the White’s laziness more or less guarantees that no worthwhile female will have anything to do with him; suggesting that, for Whites, binge‑drinking is a substitute for love.
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