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https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2018/10/10/beyond-fest-dragged-across-concrete-is-outlaw-cinema-at-its-finest

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Cytat:When Dragged Across Concrete premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival, some took rather intense issue with the movie’s odd point of view (with one review even going as far as labeling it a “vile, racist, Right Wing fantasy”). In fairness, Zahler doesn’t pick a side in this picture, but rather presents these characters as they are, and a few are vile racists. To indicate that the movie somehow glorifies these views feels like it isn’t taking the entire text into account, as throughout the film, several characters are punished for the actions and suffer for the despicable beliefs they hold. Granted, the casting of Gibson is a rather brash - some might even say "trollish" - choice (and a political act unto itself), there’s also judgment being doled out upon all, regardless of race or creed. If anything, the only guiding ethos that Zahler holds dear is nihilism, and how the struggle to succeed despite one’s station in life is often an intrinsic impossibility.

Yet this is what marks S. Craig’s Zahler’s movies as undeniably special. In an era where the vast majority of our entertainment is designed to check a number of boxes in order to be deemed “safe” for mass consumption, he’s not afraid to present us with characters whose belief systems collide with possibly the majority of the audience's. (...) In short, Dragged Across Concrete is sure to piss off people who go in looking for an excuse to be mad, but it also has a lot to say about the current sociological state of America. We need more artistic renegades like Zahler, because movies would be boring without them. All hail the current king of outlaw cinema.