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Sedition or just freedom of speech?
by Michael (movies profile)
Nov 26, 2003
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6 people found this review helpful
Joachim Phoenix is charming in this movie, as a thoroughly disreputable wheeler(drug)-dealer, so charming that you almost, but not quite, trust him. This is a wonderfully irreverent film, with a director who obviously likes his characters, but not so much that he whitewashes how fundamentally flawed they are. An interesting film, which I understand was held back for two years following September 11, it is perhaps a timely commentary on American society, in an age where the US attempts to portray itself as the world's sheriff, and the rest of the world asks whether it needed a sheriff in the first place. In a time when persons can be called seditious merely for suggesting that the US and its soldiers might not be right and good 100% of the time, this movie celebrates that great, and fundementally American right, freedom of speech. |
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