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Harrison Ford, American film actor and producer—“The Call of the Wild” (2020), “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Firewall,” “Crossing Over,” “42,” “Patriot Games,” “Clear and Present Danger”. Ford is the 4th highest-grossing domestic box-office star of all time. • Faith: Agnosticism, practices Tibetan Buddhism, following the Dalai Lama, although Ford’s religious background is Jewish and Catholic • Worldview: Environmentalism (activist), Progressive Liberalism (activist, and outspoken, close friend of former President Bill Clinton)
Ben Affleck, American film actor, director, producer—“The Way Back,” “Argo,” “The Town,” “He’s Just Not That Into You,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Paycheck,” “Good Will Hunting,” “Daredevil” • Faith: Apparently Secularism, although he has some affinity to the teachings of Buddhism • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (activist), Gay marriage supporter
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Go
Reviewed by: Joel David Whitley
CONTRIBUTOR
| Moral Rating: | Extremely Offensive |
| Moviemaking Quality: |
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| Primary Audience: | An Empty Theater |
| Genre: | Crime Comedy |
| Length: | 1 hr. 42 min. |
| Year of Release: | 1999 |
| USA Release: |
April 9, 1999 |
| Featuring | Sarah Polley, Desmond Askew, Nathan Bexton, Taye Diggs, William Fichtner, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr, Timothy Olyphant, Jimmy Shubert, Scott Wolf |
| Director |
Doug Liman |
| Producer |
Matt Freeman Mickey Liddell Paul Rosenberg Columbia Pictures |
| Distributor |
Hollywood has a current fascination with disturbing realism that seemed to begin with the critically acclaimed film “Pulp Fiction”. “Go” seeks to transfer the “Pulp Fiction” genre to the teen and twenty-something set, and in the process it celebrates drug use, illicit sex, and reckless behavior without any demonstration of the consequences.
“Go” is supposed to be a realistic take on the “Rave” scene in southern California, and sadly I would say that it was pretty accurate. It focuses on three groups—three grocery store clerks, a British guy and his friends, and two older (over 25) actors. Each of these groups runs into disaster after disaster, but they always come out on top. In this, “Go” attempts to create comedy, much like Shakespeare and his disaster-prone comedies. But “Go” does not seem to realize that these disastrous situations have serious real-life consequences.
For example the store clerk will be evicted if she doesn’t get $400 by Christmas. So instead she tries to deal Ecstasy (a hallucinogen). No mention of earning the money honestly—dealing drugs is presented as acceptable and natural. This same attitude is applied to illicit sex (graphically portrayed throughout the film), drug use (the funniest scene involves a drug induced hallucination of a talking cat), and robbery. And of course Hollywood had to take one more stab at influencing young minds by making the two actors “acceptably” homosexual. The only semi-virtuous character is portrayed as naive and inexperienced.
“Go” should not be watched by anyone. I am afraid it will convince many young people that drugs, sex, and lawlessness is not only a thrill, but something without consequences. “Go” is filled with extreme profanity (with over 50 instances of the “f” word alone), comic and random violence, and explicit sex.
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I may have found Liman’s infatuation with Tarantino-fare refreshing if he had bothered to produce characters with whom the audience can empathize: I didn’t care if the clerk got away with her scam against the dealer; I didn’t care if the British guy got away from the tough guys in Vegas; I didn’t care about any possible dynamic between the actors and the cop; and I didn’t care how the movie might wrap.
My only concern was making it alive to the credits. With exception of good acting by all players and a few humorous scenes (usually concerning a 20-something tripped on X), “Go” is entirely worth missing.