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Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Mos Def, Gano Grills, Johnnie Cochran (more)VOD (1)
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With this blisteringly funny, unapologetically confrontational satire, writer-director Spike Lee examined the past, present, and future of racism in American popular culture, issuing a daring provocation to creators and consumers alike. Under pressure to help revive his network’s low ratings, television writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) hits on an explosively offensive idea: bringing back blackface for a “new-millennium minstrel show.” The white network executives love it, and so do audiences, forcing Pierre and his collaborators to confront their public’s insatiable appetite for dehumanizing stereotypes. Shot primarily on unvarnished digital video and boasting spot-on performances from Savion Glover, Tommy Davidson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport, Mos Def, and Paul Mooney, Bamboozled is a stinging indictment of mass entertainment at the turn of the twenty-first century that looks more damning with each passing year. (Criterion)
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I didn’t know that black people still live in this sort of a discrimination bubble. Maybe there’s something about the movie – okay, it must be since it was filmed by the big black rights activist Spike Lee. I just think that it’s absolutely irrelevant to a Czech person, because the only black person we see is Mireček from Jak básníci přicházejí o iluze and I still think that we treat them with benevolence simply because they’re exotic, rather than behaving like an American hillbilly. So, it was a strange drama that was intentionally filmed in a fairly amateur manner and the story was really only valuable for the second half of the continent.
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