White Boy

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05/13/2021 WARNING - SPOILERS - BETTER TO READ AFTER YOU WATCH IT: The film was technically well planned and edited, but lacked pathos. The film maker tried to present the story as an uninvolved observer, but never made you care about anything he presented. He describes a horribly corrupt Detroit reeling in corruption, but then let's it pass by like wallpaper, suggesting the parole of one person somehow trumped the importance of this astounding era in the city's evolution. He really never makes the main character all that sympathetic, but merely describes him as having too long a sentence for his crimes. He suggests that he was the victim of over-aggressive law enforcement agencies using him as a confidential informant in his youth, but provides no real investigation of the damage that this horrible era did to the citizens of the Motor City. It felt like the filmmaker lacked empathy for the victims of all the criminals he filled his film with, but doggedly took the position that a relatively minor injustice of a criminal's lifelong imprisonment was of paramount importance. I may sympathize with the white boy's plight, but I can't help but think that the film maker missed the big picture, while peering in on a relatively minor story, quite the paradox. See more 04/05/2021 Only Netflix can make a hero out of someone like " White boy Rick" See more 07/01/2018 Heart telling Story of White Boy Rick See more Read all reviews

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