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1056589 tn?1273747102

"Machete" Is this film just too much?

I am not sure if you all have heard anything about the new  Robert Rodriguez film to be released in Sept.This film is filled with racism and propaganda akin to Birth of a Nation. If you do see it, understand it is a total work of fiction and not a call to action to start a race war by either side. All whites in the film are painted as extreme racists and the Hispanics as innocent martyrs. The most scary thing about this is this was a partially funded by taxpayer dollars. What would be the response if the situation were in reverse?

Synopsis.......This is also a spoiler too...sorry.....

Machete (Danny Trejo) is a renegade former "Mexican Federale". He roams the cities, towns, and streets of Texas looking for work after a shakedown from a drug lord called Torrez (Steven Segal).

Machete has a run-in with Michael Benz (Jeff Fahey), a local businessman and spin doctor, who tells Machete that McLaughlin (Robert De Niro), a corrupt senator, is sending hundreds of illegal immigrants out of the country and that he must be killed. Benz offers Machete $150,000 to kill McLaughlin who quickly accepts the murder contract out of greed for the money.

Attempting to assassinate the senator at a political rally, Machete is double-crossed and is shot in the shoulder by Benz's henchmen whom are soon revealed to be in league with Senator McLaughlin who orchestrated the entire attempted assassination with Benz as part of a false flag operation to gain widespread public support for McLaughlin's harsh anti-immigration laws by setting up Machete as the patsy to make it appear that an outlaw illegal Mexican immigrant tried to assassinate the senator.

Now on the run from the law and being tracked not only by a ruthless henchwoman hired by Torrez, but Machete is also tracked down by Sartana (Jessica Alba), a persistant U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent with a special interest in the blade slinger. Machete goes after Benz and his men, as well as Senator McLaughlin, with the help of his only three allies; his "holy" Federale-turned-priest brother Padre (Cheech Marion) with a thing for pump-action shotguns; a saucy meat cleaver-wielding taco slinger named Luz (Michelle Rodriguez); and Benz socialite daughter April (Lindsey Lohan), whom Machete kidnapps and who soon develops a fancination for the blade-wielding fugitive since April has a penchant for guns. Machete rallies a group of illegal migrants together, and they all begin to hunt the people who double crossed him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R10ljA0-sHs&feature=related
Warning this is very vilolent...This was originally a Fake Trailer on the 2007 Grindhouse feature film but Rodriguez decided to make the film.
What say you?
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1056589 tn?1273747102
There are folks form the hispanic community that are really upset about this films content and the timming of it's release.

I am usually all for shocking out there films but I feel in this case nothing good can come from a film like this...
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I don't get into films too much so I had not heard of this, but based on the above I would think this would be very worrisome indeed. Sadly there are many people out there that believe something like this will happen and I imagine they are capitalizing on what they feel is the general mood of the country. I hope not and I will not be seeing such nonsense.
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1056589 tn?1273747102
The fact that no one has anything to say about the blantant reverse rascism of this film is shocking to me....

If this film were portraying mexicans,blacks or any other race in such a negative light everyone would be having a fit...

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