- Also Known As:
- North Hollywood Shoot-Out
- Version:
- needed to precede following dl
- Languages:
- Length:
- 82 minutes (Uncut)
- Review Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2003
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Action
- Director:
Director Yves Simoneau 
- Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- Bank robbery goes wrong.
- Themes:
- Advertising | Alienation | Capitalism | Christianity | Corporate Power | Curative | Equality | Ethnicity | Genocide | Globalisation | Identity | Materialism | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Political Correctness | Positive Discrimination | Propaganda | Republicanism | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Solipsism | The West | White culture | White guilt | White people | White privilege | White supremacy
- Similar to:
- Unknown
Black Lives (Do Not) Matter
Despite the technical excellence on show here, the writing flounders on the racist premise that the White supremacy of the police can be excused by the alleged fearlessness of police constables on duty. So long as hardened criminals are killed, the consistent repression Blacks experience at the hands of White police officers simply does not matter – to Whites, at least.
However, Whites attempting to occult their own racial fears & insecurities with propaganda that does nothing more than suggest that if a rapist buys the woman he rapes a slap‑up meal afterwards, he cannot be all bad; makes White people just as bad. Somehow, the fact that the White police often do good, compensates for all the human evil they perpetuate. As if the construction of the gas chambers could ever be sanitized by Hitler’s early creation of full employment in then-recessionary Nazi Germany.
White guilt, shame & denial means that this White‑supremacy theme is implied and, thus, never fully‑explored – dramatically; leaving the audience with no‑one to empathize with and a great deal of compensatory gunfire.
The actors do their best with underwritten material and just about manage to make the whole thing bearable for its thankfully‑fleeting running time.
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