Title: Vile
Review: I have to tap into my memory banks to recall a more repulsive film. I came up with "I Spit On Your Grave". Director-star Melvin Van Peebles has the audacity to pawn off his nihilistic fantasies as wish fullfilment for the black population as a whole. There were a lot of artistic triumphs to emerge from so-called "black expoitation" genre and this is not one of them. This collage of violently misogynistic images can be attributed to the auteur himself. The film starts with Van Peebles exploiting his son Mario by showing the adolescent servicing a prostitute. The film goes downward from there. Van Peebles directorial style is hackneyed and the acting is amateur hour. Don't be fooled into thinking this is some sort of landmark film. It's unadulterated [...]
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