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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket
The portrayals were not realistic. If an LA cop fingerbanged someone while frisking them, they would lose their job...If a CSI investigator (or whatever she was) spouted overtly racists remarks to someone, she would lose her job. If a DA's wife was deemed as a racist (and witnessed as one by several people in her house), the press would have a field day bringing that DA down.
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We are living on different planets.
Cops in particular, get away (quite literally) with murder, and every crime in between that and pencil theft.
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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket
I'm not saying all racists are covert. But what are the odds that all 12 of these people are?
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About the same as all 12 of these people being interconnected by automobile incidents. Either you accept that coincidence is the essence of the story or you don't. But since it IS, the presence of coincidence is simply not a legitimate criticism (any more than my criticism of King Kong is that I would have found a giant hamster more realistic).
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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket
So the filmmakers need not be experienced in being on the receiving end of racism in order to be credible, but I do?
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No, you miss my point - which is that you shouldn't hold the filmmakers to different level of racism-familiarity than you have yourself. I was pointing out that your own familiarity seems limited in respects, so why can't the filmmakers' be limited in others?
Oh, and since Jake and Ennis are both as bisexual as I am, I am quite authoritative on BBM.
