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Despite its plot, “Red Riding” is not a story about serial killers or brutal murders??it is about all of the things that surround them: the parents, the police, the newspapers, and the communities all trying to make sense of these brutal events...
...powers-that-be, while sometimes guilty of heinous crimes against humanity, have hardly had a monopoly on terror. One only needs to revisit the historical record, where—as Frantz Fanon once wrote about European imperialism—we find an “avalanche of murders?? carried out by those who “never stopped talking...
...voice as that of the Southern Avenger. He was arguing that if one race owed reparations to another, considering crime rates, it was blacks to whites. “Just like slavery, the blood and sacrifice, or to be more specific—the countless assaults, rapes and murders??can never be repaid in dollar amounts. But aren’t white folks owed some kind of justice?” The skill with which he twisted words around was frightening. I couldn’t believe what he was saying and couldn’t wait...
What we do know is afforded by the convenient dramatic device of Abberline’s “visions” of the murders. While drifting in and out of an opium-induced haze, he sees details—tinted, blurry city-scapes and half concealed, shadowy murders??only to wake up and have these apparitions confirmed on the streets. Even awake, Depp wanders in a somewhat dreamlike trance through the crimes, with little in the way of actual detective work or even acting. Depp, a badass no matter what accent you foist upon him, never truly...
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