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| Abel Ferrar’s (King of New York, The Funeral) cult classic – from the seedy underbelly of a crime riddled New York City comes the story of a police officer who is almost as morally bankrupt, ethically void and emotionally vacant as the transgressors he is employed to apprehend. Director Abel Ferrara, who has gained a wide-spread cult following for his ‘pull-no-punches’, sensationalist style of directing has once again outdone himself in this crude, hyper-real depiction of a depressingly imaginable reality. Following an unnamed cop around the beat (played by Harvey Keitel in a critically acclaimed performance), Ferrara destroys any possible belief in law, order and morality. Instead, reality becomes a bleak, hopeless and pessimistic existence where the anti-hero is a hard-drinking, drug-taking, sexually abusing fiend whose only instance of moral repentance comes when he meets a nun who has been raped, yet forgives her attackers. This simple action of compassion alters his view, and drives him to seek justice in the only way he knows how. Starring Harvey Keitel (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs), Victor Argo (Ghost Dog Way of the Samurai) and Paul Calderon (Girlfight, 21 Grams). |
