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> >EXPOSÉ---------Antwone Fisher (Denzel Washington, director)
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>>Good choice, but Antwone--expose of what?
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>i was baffled by that choice too; from
>http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jan2003/antw-j29.shtml
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>"Antwone Fisher contains both healthy and unhealthy impulses. No doubt
>Denzel Washington, an enormously talented and dignified performer, would
>like to create some kind of alternate ethos to the popular music-rap
>culture, with its glorification of backwardness and violence, perhaps even
>to the worship of celebrity and wealth. But what does the film offer as an
>alternative? The US Navy, militarism, patriotism, social conformism-and this
>on the eve of an unprovoked, colonial-style assault on a small, defenseless
>country."
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Excatly. And lousy psychology to boot.
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