Review of Red White & Blue (2010) by Al M — 19 Dec 2011
Red White & Blue is--to put it simply--trasngressive/visceral cinema at its absolute finest. A powerful, brutal, and simultaneously beautiful piece of filmmaking that examines the darkness and desire that drives each and every one of us (forgive me Freud and Lacan for conflating drive and desire in that sentence!).
AS one of the critics below states, the film can be summed up with two words: "Brace yourself." It is a rollercoaster ride of emotion as Rumley forces us to not only identify but empathize with each of the three major characters (the Red White and Blue of the title) before plunging us into the horrors that ensue.
The film is 95% drama about three people trying to deal with the traumas of their existence: a woman whose past causes her to sociopathically sleep with a succession of random men without every trying to connect emotionally with anyone, a veteran trying to find his place in the civilian world, and a punk musician dealing with his mother's terminal illness.
The three lives intersect in a way that is almost reminiscent of Altman if it had more characters. Red White & Blue is a painful, emotional ride that will make you want to weep right before it makes you cringe with its depiction of violence.
A tale of revenge, Red White & Blue is more fundamentally a tale about how our past informs our present, about how lives our subject to the whims of chaos, and how we can truly never know the repercussions of our actions----perhaps Kant would have approved.
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This review of Red White & Blue (2010) was written by Al M on 19 Dec 2011.
Red White & Blue has generally received positive reviews.
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