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Originally Posted by Lester Burnham
My review:
1) Predictable - Hmmm....old white guy lives in the inner city. I wonder how this is going to end?
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It's not the inner city, it's an old suburb.
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Originally Posted by Lester Burnham
2) Tired out plot - Hmmmm....white guy comes into a neighborhood where the minorities don't know how to act. He teaches them how to be responsible, pick up girls, read, talk, drive, etc. White guy saves the day!! (replace neighborhood with a school, country, etc., and you have yourself another movie)
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The guy didn't come into the neighborhood, he had been living there since the 50's. The minorities had moved into the area over the last 20 years as whites moved out.
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Originally Posted by Lester Burnham
3) Asian people in American "no speaky englissshhh", drive honda civics, raise chickens in their back yards, and don't mow their lawns.
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I have spent a lot of time in areas where that is pretty much exactly what happens... Aren't you allowed to portray real circumstances in a movie?
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Originally Posted by Lester Burnham
I enjoyed the movie quite honestly, but it was a little over the top in the stereotypes. We get it, old white guys who drive old vintage cars and have guns are cool...especially when they kick the asses of minorities.
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I guess you missed a bunch of the film, like the fact that he was estranged from his own family, and he found himself relating better to the family values of the hmong family than his own kids.
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