Looking for the Origins of the Gangs of Los Angeles
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
If the historical record (and common sense) did not insist otherwise, you might walk away from the documentary “Crips and Bloods: Made in America” thinking that the story of two of the most notoriously violent gangs in Los Angeles and the story of that city’s nongangbanging African-American population are one and the same.
That they are not identical goes without saying. And yet, in his excavation of Los Angeles gang life past and present, the director Stacy Peralta conflates these separate if at times overlapping black histories to such a ridiculous degree that he undermines even the most persuasive parts of his argument. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (3777 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 23 Gennaio 2009
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