We watched it in Language Practice class today and briefly discussed it. I had read some Movie Database reviews and guess what? The class was pretty much divided about this movie, like most reviews on the Database. One might consider this movie one of the best he has ever seen, the other would say it was the worst movie in Hollywood history. Most of the praise or complaints the movie received were about the ending, and it is the finale that insitgated so much controversy in people - so I read.
My take on the film was that the first ninety minutes were unnecessary and boring - nothing really happened. Then everything sped up and the movie ended in like ten or fifteen minutes. The ending, in my opinion, was deeper than what it initially might seem. I was coming home by bus and thinking of this movie, but I hardly got anywhere apart from some obvious conclusions and common things people usually say about a movie (any movie, in this case). I got that a white police killed Radio Rahim and the white Italian-American friend-of-the-entire-street Pizzeria-owner (Sali?) paid for it when all the African Americans burned his Pizzeria out of rage of their fallen brother. But I seem to have lost the significance of the first part of the movie, so I did not wholly understand why the film ended as it ended.
I kind of liked its ending because it makes people think - unlike those of an ordinary Hollywood movie where the good guy always truimphs and the bad guy gets killed.
I'm wondering if any of you guys have seen it and could tell me what you think of it.
