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Red State
Red State begins by following three horny high-school boys who come across an online ad from an older woman looking for a gang bang. Boys being boys, they hit the road to satisfy their libidinal...  View more >

Starring Melissa Leo, John Goodman, Michael Parks...  View more >

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Nov 2, 2012
Red State has promise as a satirical look at three groups of people, and how their singular (and often misguided) focus leads them astray from even their own stated goals. Unfortunately, looking at a situation from three different angles can create a lack of attention and clarity of the storytelling, and I think that's evident here.

The end credits make it clear that director Kevin Smith is looking at people as they are driven by three distinct motivations: sex, religion, and politics. The first is represented by homosexuals in general and some teenagers that are willing to participate in a foursome to satisfy their sex drive. The second is a radical cult-like religious group that rails against the evils it perceives of the first group. The third is the government agents that are brought in to settle a conflict between the other two groups, and end up creating more trouble as well.

There are some moments of clarity, when the point that it seems the filmmakers were trying to make is communicated very well. The story and the characters' actions support that point. But then, the movie shifts to one of the other perspectives, and that clarity is lost, and a few uneven moments prevent it from being regained.

There are no good guys in this movie, and maybe that's the whole point of the movie. Everyone has their own agenda and way of looking at things, and that singular focus often prevents one from looking at a situation rationally and acting from the moral basis that we know we have but are too willing to set aside for the sake of that agenda.

As a statement piece, Red State delivers. As an example of filmmaking, it could have used some more time to be refined into what it could have been.

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