Saturday, March 7, 2009

In Bruges with a racist dwarf..

Saw the movie In Bruges. Pretty enjoyable. But one thing struck me as funny. The two main characters are hit men. One, who is cultured and enjoys Bruges, and another, who isn't and doesn't. At one point, they are "partying" with two prostitutes and a "dwarf" who is playing a role in a movie being shot in Bruges. The "dwarf" holds forth on his theory that a race war is coming between the blacks and the whites. The cultured (white) hitman takes offense because he was married to a black woman who was killed by a white man. He gets up too leave with disparaging words for the prostitutes and the racist dwarf. A hitman! Takes offense! At racism! And skeeziness! What's the message here? Most certainly that a racist is worse than a hitman! A person who kills people for money is fit to pass judgement on a simple racist. Ridiculous.

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