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Title: ROMPER STOMPER
Director: Geoffrey Wright
Year: 1992
Reviewed: May 05, 2004
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I am going to take a moment to talk about some older films that are most deserving of another look.
Russell Crowe is, next to Kurt Russell, one of the greatest character actors of our time.
You don't believe me.
Then explain to me how he can go from The Insider- playing an over weight, tobacco executive, to Gladiator- playing the strongest hero ever to grace the screen, to A Beautiful Mind- playing a schizophrenic mathematician, without being a great, nay a historically great character actor?
You know nothing about Russell Crowe and the depths into which he is willing to plumb to get at the heart, the meat of a character until you see Romper Stomper.
Granted, this one is difficult to hunt down. I severely doubt one would be able to find it at Blockbuster. But if you search, you will find a career defining moment in an actor's life.
Romper Stomper is the story of an Australian skinhead gang, and how their lives tumble into chaos after accepting a strange, enigmatic woman into their midst. It is not an easy movie, it is in fact hard to watch at times, but that does not mean it is any less extraordinary. It's a love story, set in the violent and ignorant world of racist gangs.
Rent it. You will see something you have never seen before.
On a completely different side note, the people who would argue that Romper Stomper glorifies racism are the same people who would argue that Good Fella's glorifies being a gangster, or Train Spotting glorifies drug addiction, or Black Hawk Down or Platoon glorifies war. These people are in fact, wrong. If you watch any of the above movies and think that they are in anyway touting, or heralding, the wickedness and horror of their subject matter, you need to look a little closer.
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