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...director Phillip Noyce has made two new films--The Quiet American from Graham Greene's 1955 novel and Rabbit-Proof Fence--that dramatize these roiling issues. Both films are cast as adventures; Noyce, who directed the Tom Clancy thrillers Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, is a master at encasing political messages in action and passion. The result is a pair of films that are both pointed and poignant...
...Rabbit-Proof Fence is the true story of three Aboriginal girls yanked from their families to learn English prayers and Stephen Foster songs. The eldest, Molly, 14 (the gifted Everlyn Sampi), determines to take the two others home--a 1,200-mile walk along the fence that provides their only map. If Quiet American is a love story, this is a chase movie (Simon Legree after three Little Evas) across parched outback terrain, captured with rapturous authenticity by cinematographer Christopher Doyle...
...Pedy to Warriner, a long-abandoned railway depot in the middle of nowhere. "You'll be all right with Phil," the cheerful driver assured me. "He's a bit of a bushie." It wasn't a reference to his foot-long beard. Wearing a check shirt and a tall, rabbit-felt hat, trek leader Phil Gee looked the part of a man more comfortable in the outback than indoors...
...steps outside the strictures of its plot to comment on rap, race and class. The movie takes its name from a real road in Detroit which marks the unofficial boundary between the white and black sections of the city. In the film, 8 Mile Road represents the racial barrier Rabbit must overcome to achieve success in a predominantly black art form. For those looking for it, 8 Mile thus doubles as political and cultural commentary, persuasively rebutting the idea that rap can be performed and appreciated exclusively by members of one race...
...raps in “White America” that “if I was black, I would have sold half,” defiantly acknowledging that being white has been a key element of his cross-over commercial appeal. 8 Mile imagines a fantasy world in which Rabbit is a member of an oppressed white minority, with a bullying black boss intent on victimizing his conscientious young employee. Cheddar Bob, Rabbit’s only white friend, is a buffoonish poser who accidentally shoots himself in an attempt to prove his “street cred?...