[Reader-list] Urban desperation in the movies

[Rana Dasgupta]

point taken, menso (that we have already seen films
like Boyz in the Hood); but i don't think these
phenomena are the same.  "inner city blacks" have long
been part of the self-definition-by-contrast of
mainstream american society.  "gangs of new york" is
about the violent history of that same mainstream. 
compare and contrast scorsese's own "age of innocence"
set at the same time as his new one, in which the
origins of the city he has spent most of his career
making violent films about are extremely genteel.  

in this sense i don't know if i can link it to the rio
film.  maybe someone else can.

R


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