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| 831.1 | ....Humble apologies.... | BAHTAT::BROWNED | | Tue May 16 1995 07:43 | 4 |
| sorry - I,ve just read what I had written. Sorry about lack of
punctuation, namely full stops.
daks
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| 831.2 | | BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTY | Trouble with a capital 'T' | Tue May 16 1995 08:03 | 4 |
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And you should also apologize for putting in FF's [form feeds]
if they're not necessary.
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| 831.3 | It has been a while | MEMIT::MARCO | | Tue May 16 1995 10:06 | 12 |
| I saw Fresh sometime last year and I remember being very moved by the
movie--both from the story line as well as from the acting, writing, directing,
etc. What I remember about it most is that it is a story of how a very bright
and enterprising young boy deals with living in the ghetto with having only one
goal--get himself and his sister out. And that is what he does but at a great
price. It saddened me as well that a young boy cannot have a childhood. I
remember the plot was intricate with a lot of side story lines going as well.
Some of them were a little hard to follow. Sorry I cannot be of much help. I
would have to see it again to help dispel some of the confusion you are
expressing.
RA
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| 831.4 | Which pieces to sacrifice? | KOLFAX::WIEGLEB | Horses are fine, so are books | Tue May 16 1995 20:48 | 15 |
| This was a very gripping and moving film that far too few people saw.
Maybe it will get a new lease on life on video. (Is it out yet?)
The young lead (Sean Nelson?) did an excellent job as the child who is
denied innocence. Samuel L. Jackson was very good as the dad as well.
Giancarlo Esposito(?) did a nice turn as the seductively sleazy drug
baron.
The "chess game" machinations at the end were a bit contrived, but
really made the points well. The film mixes naturalism with a kind of
dark story-book quality.
I wouldn't mind catching this again.
- Dave
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| 831.5 | to add to last reply | GMASEC::HATCH_R | | Wed May 17 1995 11:17 | 10 |
| I too saw the movie Fresh and would like to add to the previous reply.
The way Fresh, the little boy, deals with the local drug runners is
much like the way he played chess. (In fact, they make reference to
that in the movie) Fresh is the king in his game and everyone else are
just pawns for him to use to ultimately win the game--i.e To get his
sister and himself out of the getto. I too agree it was a very
gripping movie with an excellent story line.
chaas
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| 831.6 | ??? | STRATA::GARRITY | | Thu May 18 1995 00:29 | 4 |
| I recently seen this movie on video. Can anyone tell me why he killed
the dog? I don't know if I missed soemthing or what?
Chris
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| 831.7 | 2 possible reasons! | GMASEC::HATCH_R | | Fri May 19 1995 11:43 | 9 |
| Chris I think the reason he killed his dog was: 1) He really had no
place to keep him, now that his friend was dead. 2) After the dog went
through the dog fight it might have made him hard to handle. I too
really wasn't to sure why but this is all I could come up with.... I
hope it helped??????
chaas
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| 831.8 | | OOTOOL::CHELSEA | Mostly harmless. | Mon Jun 05 1995 15:45 | 5 |
| Re: .6
I just watched it over the weekend. I'm not quite sure why he did
that, either, except to make it look like somebody was really out to
get the two kids. That was really hard to watch.
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| 831.9 | Loss of innocence | KOLFAX::WIEGLEB | Horses are fine, so are books | Mon Jun 05 1995 20:40 | 6 |
| RE: the dog
I think it was mostly symbolic in the film. Fresh killed the dog after
the dog had "lost its innocent nature" and become a killer.
- Dave
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