What's the last movie you watched? (Part DEUX)

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American Gangster

...I think that the film would have been even better if the filmmakers had shown Frank's childhood growing up in Jim Crow-era North Carolina, and his introduction to the Harlem underworld as a young adult.. we get the brief line from him about seeing his cousin tied up and murdered by local police/klan, but this would have been a powerful scene if it were filmed.. the idea being , that a black 'gangster' of Frank's generation just doesn't come out of nowhere (the film simply introduces him as a seasoned enforcer); showing how American racism, for better or worse, shaped his attitudes and beliefs, much differently than the 'immigrant dreams' that figure into the stories of white ethnic crime figures..
 
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Serenity Collector's Edition, with Cast Commentary, 10/10
 
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