Freedomland (2006)

Italian Movie.

Richard Price's novel FREEDOMLAND is brought to life in this 2006 adaptation. A carjacking-turned-kidnapping provides the set-up for a complex story of racial and class divide, as black detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) attempts to uncover the truth in victim Brenda Martin's story. Bleeding and dazed in an inner city ER, Brenda (Julianne Moore) explains that on her way home from work in the projects of fictional Dempsey, New Jersey, a black man assaulted her and stole her car. Matters are intensified when it's revealed that her 4-year-old son was asleep in the backseat. 

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OCKERS), who also wrote the screenplay, has never shied away from the blunt realities and moral ambiguities of the contemporary urban experience. Though Price's vision is often unrelentingly bleak, and his characters are far from saintly , there's a weary hopefulness that birddogs them throughout. Stars Jackson and Moore turn in performances as incendiary as the film's subject, and the excellent supporting cast (Edie Falco and Anthony Mackie, among them) tackles these complex characters with both nuance and fire. Director Joe Roth (CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS) is given the monumental task of bringing Price's epic to the screen and his visual approach works well--all cinematic chiaroscuro and icy hues. Still, Price's themes of racial and class tension are rough, murky waters and require both a bold vision and a deft touch. As much as Roth is clearly passionate about the task at hand--setting an emotional fever pitch from the word go--the hopeful resolution he desires is not so easily attained, if attainable at all. FREEDOMLAND is a tough one, and although flawed, in the end, it's an emotionally complex, politically provocative film worth viewing.
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Brenda Martin (Moore) strompelt aangeslagen de Eerste Hulp in Dempsy, New Jersey binnen en beweert dat een zwarte man haar auto heeft gestolen met haar vier jaar oude zoon op de achterbank. Detective Lorenzo Council (Jackson) heeft zijn bedenkingen bij Brenda's verhaal, maar start toch een grootschalig onderzoek, waarbij hij hulp krijgt van een groep moeders die naar verdwenen kinderen zoeken. Gedurende het onderzoek nemen de spanningen tussen het voornamelijk 'zwarte' Dempsy en het overwegend 'blanke' buurstadje Gannon toe.

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