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Queen of the Beasts
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: in my burrow
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Aug 8th, 2004, 11:43 PM
Gangs of New York
Rent this movie. Now. It is fucking amazing.
The attention to historical detail alone is incredible, as is the editing, but what blew me away was the final scene with the draft riots. For those of you who don't know, in the middle of the Civil War there were horrible riots in New York. News of them was suppressed, and the movie presents a carefully reconstructed version of events that were ignored for over a hundred years. The violence in that movie made the Rodney King riots in L.A during the 1990's look about as scary as a fart in a phone booth by comparision.
It was incredible how savage people were back then. I know that NY was a very tough place during that era, but even the worst modern American city looks like a fucking utopia by comparison.
I think the part that moved me the most was the final scene, when they are in the graveyard, and the city is in smoldering ruins behind them. They get up and leave, and music starts up, and the scene changes, showing NY from various stages throughout the 20th Century, and finally it ends with a shot of modern NY, with the WTC still up.
Just go see the damn thing.
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