The Believer
A lot of people don’t know this movie very well. It’s when Ryan Gosling wasn’t famous and he played a self-hating Jew. It was messed up to see how conflicted he was. You have a hard time believing he ever was in fact Jewish but it becomes quite clear and evident as his past catches up with his present and he has no idea how to handle his hatred. This was a fantastic Indy flick.
Crash
This movie always gets mixed reactions. I happened to enjoy it and I found it to be somewhat over the top but at the same time I can definitely see some irritating white cops pulling this stuff in real life. Not to mention all the other crimes that take place in this movie. Did it deserve best picture? Probably not but it’s worth seeing.
Guess Whose Coming to Dinner
It goes without saying that this movie is important. Number One. Sidney Poitier was huge at the time this movie came out and a movie where a white woman wants to marry a black man and introduce him to her family was about as courageous a move a film could make. And I’m sure glad it did come out. What a great subject and acting to back it up.
School Ties
I gotta say I’m not sure what happened to Brendan Fraser after this movie but I feel like he hasn’t had a role that even comes close to that of David Green in School Ties. It’s a great film centered around a star athlete who is recruited to a mostly (if not all) Christian private school where most students get to the ivy leagues upon graduation. He must conceal the fact he’s Jewish but once his teammates find out, forget it.
Higher Learning
John Singleton tackles racism in college in this movie. And while it’s over the top in terms of the violence, etc etc, not really. Think about it. We’ve had way too many shootings since this movie and at the time it was made I doubt anyone thought this stuff could happen. It’s intense to say the least. Of all the movies here, unfortunately this one most accurately predicted the future. The amount of school shootings we have today is completely unacceptable. We should have taken this movie more seriously.
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