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25 March 2009

Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)


Director: Uli Edel
Scenario: Hubert Selby Jr., Desmond Nakano
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, West Germany
Year: 1989
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 6.7/10


Actors: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach, Stephen Baldwin, Jason Andrews, James Lorinz, Sam Rockwell, Maia Danziger, Camille Saviola, Ricki Lake, Cameron Johann, John Costelloe, Christopher Murney






Nekako smo se manje više svi udaljili od svakodnevnih tema kao što su besparica, ostanak bez posla, neplaćeni računi, krediti...
Barem ja, iako su to stvari koje su svakodnevnica u mom okruženju. Obično kada se vratim sa posla, sjednem u fotelju, gledam tv ili slušam muziku ili odem kod nekog na kafu. Tako ispadne ko da me se ne tiču te socrealističke teme, štrajkovi, izbori, zatvaranje firmi i slično. Pa kad sam se već preselio na neku drugu planetu sinoć pustim ovaj film i dočeka me šok. Sve je kao da se nisam ni maknuo sa balkana, štrajkovi, jad, tuga, bijeda. Nastavljam da gledam film. Nekako se uživim sa tim ljudima iz filma i preselim u Brooklin 50-tih godina. Od muke kradu, prostituišu se, napijaju se i pričaju priče u lokalnoj kafani. Jedan od njih nemože ni seks sa ženom više da ima. Pa i kako će kada ga po cjeli dan biju muke. I onda on naleti na jednog tranvestita koji mu pokaže da sve to može i drugačije. Zaljubio se jadničak ne shvatajući da ga ovaj peder voli samo dok ima para, a kada ostane bez njih ode na ulicu.
Interesantna mi je i ova plava droljica Tralala. Popušiće svakom vojniku za par dolara, ko ja da popijem kafu. Prevariće, ukrašće, ma sve samo da se dokopa novca. I onda upozna vojnika koji treba da ode u Koreju. Jadničak joj priča o ljubavi o stvarima koje se ne dotiču novca i želji da ako preživi rat ostatak života provede sa njom. Na kraju joj pri odlasku ostavi kovertu i kaže otvori je kada brod isplovi. Tralala histerično otvori kovertu kad u njoj nema ništa, samo pismo koje je na brzinu pročitala. A gdje je tu novac.??
Šta da vam pišem , mnogima su ove priče poznate. Da li trebamo dopustiti da nam nemaština ili potreba za novcem uzme i dušu? Na žalost iako ne živimo u Brooklinu 50-tih godina, neke stvari se nisu promjenile. Ništa lakše nego naći nekog pedera da vam popuši u zamjenu za malo provoda , pokoju večeru ili neku "pozajmicu". Nemojte i vi dopustiti da budete oni koje traže za tako nešto. U kakav god to celofan umotali, uvijek će to biti neki vid prostitucije!

Description:
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a bleak tour of urban hell, a $16 million Stateside-lensed production of Hubert Selby Jr's controversial 1964 novel. But it doesn't hold a scalpel to the lacerating torrential prose that made the book so cringingly urgent.

Director Uli Edel, whose international reputation was made on the 1980 teen drug drama Christiane F., proves himself an accomplished professional. What he lacks is that fundamental gift of empathy that would make these damned souls more than just figures under a cinematic microscope.

Action is set in a working-class section of Brooklyn in 1952, close by the navy yards where young Americans are embarking for the Korean War. Many residents are engaged in a bitter six month strike against a local factory. Film's spectacular centerpiece is a well-staged riot pitting strikers against police when factory management uses scab labour to break the picket lines.

One of the protagonists is Stephen Lang, a venal married shop steward and secretary of the strike office who has been dipping into the union till to subsidize his first homosexual affair. When union boss Jerry Orbach boots him out, Lang is dropped by his mercenary lover. A subhuman band of local goons thrashes Lang to within an inch of his life (and 'crucifies' him on a wooden crossbeam).

Other major character is a tawdry, hard-drinking teen hooker named Tralala (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who lures unsuspecting bar-hopping servicemen to a back lot where they are mugged and robbed by the band. One night she gets drunk and defiantly declares herself open for sexual services to the neighbourhood bar's entire clintele.

The resulting gangbang, one of the most horrific passages in Selby Jr's book, is here sanitized and given a hopeful finish.




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