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Hæ hæ hæ – så kan I fame lære det. Mac er bare bedre…

USA har en trist, voldsom og blodig historie hvad angår racisme. Man skal ikke mange årtier tilbage før der stadig var race-adskillelse i sydstaterne. Og der skrives stadig i landets aviser om den første sorte mand i baseball eller USAs første sorte dette og hint. Det har altid slået mig, at det sgu da var en underlig måde at udtrykke sig på. Hvorfor skal man hele tiden fokusere på, at personen er sort eller hvid?
Den helt fantastiske skuespiller Morgan Freeman har skåret helt ind til benet og har sagt følgende:
“Freeman has come out publicly against the celebration of Black History Month and does not participate in any related events, saying that “I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history.” He says the only way to end racism is to stop talking about it, and he notes that there is no “white history month.” Freeman once said on an interview with 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace: “I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man”. Kilde Wikipedia.
Og her har manden efter min mening fuldstændig ret – hvorfor blive ved med at tale om sort og hvid?

En bizar overskrift, det ved jeg, men ikke desto mindre er det sandt.
Statsminister Anders Fogh har sin egen MySpace-side her og det er jo meget ungdommeligt og med på noderne. En af hans MySpace-venner er Anita, en 20-årig pige fra København – og blandt hendes MySpace-venner finder man – tada – de herrer Nik og Jay.
Men er den mordene netværkstanke ikke bare fantastisk…

Susanne Biers Brødre synes jeg var en fantastisk film: Den handler om det uhyggelige ved krig og hvordan det er at vende hjem igen til venner og familie, som måske ikke forstår hvilke oplevelser man som soldat har været igennem.
Når man ser på den lange række af amerikanske remakes af europæiske og asiatiske film, så kan det jo ikke overraske at Brødre nu også bliver produceret – og slutresultaterne har ikke altid været lige heldige.
Det gode ved denne filmatisering er indtil videre de skuespiller, der er tilknyttet projektet. Tobey McGuire, kendt fra Wonder Boys, The Ciderhouse Rules og Spiderman, overtager ulrich Thomsens rolle, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko, overtager Nikolai Lie Kaas rolle og den skønne Natalie Portman træder i Connie Nielsens sko. Det tegner satme godt – kvalitetsskuespillere over hele linien.

Her er i øvrigt en amerikansk anmeldese af den originale danske film:

“Brothers (Brødre)” is a Danish “Coming Home” crossed with “Deer Hunter” and the novels of Tim O’Brien with the added frisson of Cain vs. Abel, as updated to the war on terrorism in Afghanistan.

While I can understand how this is a new experience for Danes, it could have more impact for someone who has never seen a post-Viet Nam War movie. Otherwise it’s like a fairly predictable cable TV movie about post traumatic stress syndrome on a channel that allows four letter words, including as has been done in British television films about returning peacekeepers from the Balkans.

The excellent acting rose above the stereotypes to make it very moving anyway, including very natural child actors who were very un-Dakota Fanning-like.

Nikolaj Lie Kaas is particularly charismatic on screen, even more than he was in “Reconstruction,” and should now be in the international pantheon of rugged male stars who play “bad boys” really well, emphasized by portraying brunettes in the land of the blonds. So I give director/co-writer Susanne Bier extra credit for not fulfilling the most obvious direction of the plot, but instead letting tension hang in the air, which is more powerful.

Connie Nielsen, using her native language, has warm and charged chemistry with both her co-stars, but is pretty much just the beautiful wife/mother.

Unfortunately, the distributors didn’t spring for American English subtitles so you have to interpret Brit slang as if you’re watching BBC America. (I did learn in one instance that the F word sounds pretty much the same in Danish as in English but the subtitles didn’t match that sound again so I was wondering what other curse words were being replaced with the fundamental English one.) Some times the translation is just plain confusing; for example, the word “assaulted” seems to have a different connotation than something in the Danish dialog, as a plot point gets confused for a subtitle reader. The translation is particularly a problem during a critical scene where the older girl has an outburst, as it’s quizzical how scatological her terms were in Danish as opposed to the English choices to understand how incendiary the scene really is.

The Afghans are uniformly shown with the same level of subtlety as North Vietnamese, let alone Nazis, in prisoner-of-war movies. It is ironically interesting that English is now the lingua franca between freedom fighters everywhere.

The cinematography is beautifully color saturated, but is grainy; perhaps it’s blown up from video.”
Kilde imdb.com