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The Hurricane (1999), (R)
CAP Score: 48
CAP Influence Density: 1.64
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A service to parents and grandparents MAR20009 The Hurricane (1999), (R) CAP Score: 48 CAP Influence Density: 1.64 |
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 Christian Banner eXchange ALERT: To fully understand this report you should first visit the topics suggested by the CAP Table of Contents. SUMMARY / COMMENTARY: *The Hurricane* (1999) -- the perfect example. Yes, the perfect example of needless use of gratuitous sexual programming and foul language. NONE of it was needed. *The Hurricane* would have been a very, very good movie without them. *The Hurricane* was a wonderful story of justice and injustice. A very touching presentation of courage and dedication for the right reasons. Denzel Washington was genius. It was about true love -- the non-physical kind. I am rarely moved by a movie, what with having seen every kind and sort of filth Hollywood can create, but I was indeed moved by *The Hurricane*. But the art quality of this movie was completely destroyed by the junk and the trash and the filth that the writers just had to smear on it. Made me mad, it did. It was like smearing black paint on the Mona Lisa or Whistler's Mother. Rear male nudity. Twenty-five uses of the most foul of the foul words. Forty-eight uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary. Bloody murders by gunfire. And a token splattering of a whole lot of additional ignominy. All these ruined what could have been great piece of cinematic art. Granted, this was based on a true story of a hero of sorts, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter but where is the justification for being so explicit? Remember the way marital sex used to be portrayed in movies? The husband would pick up the wife at the threshold of the honeymoon motel room, carry her in, then you'd see the door shut behind them. That was it. Now, the camera follows them into the Notel Motel bed and brings you each move AND sound the pair makes. When did that amount of "truth" become necessary? The same applies to *The Hurricane*. Sure, prison officials strip the new inmates to prepare them, but when did it become necessary to show that. And sure, there is body decimation when shot with a shotgun, but when did that amount of graphic display become necessary? Is THIS the "truth?" I don't think so. Rather, it is sensationalism to maximize teasing of our sinful nature. This movie had such a potential for being one of the all-time greats that I would like to violate my own policy guidelines and recommend this movie, but I can't. There is too much "truth" to it. So many of our visitors seem to be relying only on this Summary/Commentary for a full assessment of this movie. This is not possible. For the best representation of the CAP Entertainment Media Analysis Model applied to this movie, visit the Findings/Scoring section below. FINDINGS / SCORING: 
NOTE: Multiple occurrences of each item described below may be likely. Wanton Violence/Crime (W): Impudence/Hate (I)(1): Sex/Homosexuality (S): Drugs/Alcohol (D): Offense to God (O)(2): Murder/Suicide (M)(3): |
