Mining Post-9/11 America for Laughs
di Dennis Lim The New York Times
AMERICAN political cinema of the George W. Bush era has come to assume a few familiar forms: the documentary indictment (“Fahrenheit 9/11,” “No End in Sight”), the sober memorial (“World Trade Center,”“United 93”), the angry or earnest Iraq drama (“Redacted,”“Stop-Loss”). In this cheerless landscape “Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay,” the sequel to the 2004 cult favorite “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” creates its own category: the stoner protest film.
The writer-directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who also wrote the first “Harold and Kumar” movie, are reluctant to think of “Guantánamo Bay,” title notwithstanding, in strictly political terms. [...]
di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (8927 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 20 Aprile 2008
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