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01 2008

8 Mile

At its heart, a normal 8 Mile motion picture. Applying traditional sports formula for hip-hop music, it manages to extend the familiar plot structure in the new arena. Thus, instead of the decisive battle taking place in the boxing ring or on the baseball field, it is taking place in the club where the two rappers battle to see who takes home the crown. And, as is usually the case with well-made sports films, you do not have to assess the particular sport to enjoy the film. 8 Mile was not done solely for the fans of hip-hop music in mind.

8 Mile is a grim, gritty feel. Camera captures seedier quarter of Detroit in a way that do nothing for the city in the tourism industry. This is in stark portrait of urban echoes of the collapse of the images we have seen in the bombing of cities like Beirut and Sarajevo. Sunshine is at a premium, the majority of the scenes take place indoors or outside at night or under the clouds. There is not a lot of smiles, either, or, for that matter, many reasons to smile. The people in this movie are poor and trying to make ends meet. To pay the rent, they would hope that they win at bingo. Sex is not about love, it takes about surcease, and forget, if only for a moment. For the most part, blacks are gang-bangers and Caucasians white trash.

The controversial and high-profile rap artist Eminem plays Jimmy “B-Rabbit” Smith Jr., a worker at the car factory, the real passion is hip-hop. On master rhymer, but joining competition, it is overcome by stage fright. One day, he hopes to earn enough money to make a demo tape, but on that day, as far. At the same time he struggles through his daily life, living in a trailer with his mother (Kim Basinger) and the kidnapping of a random time with his trampy girlfriend, Alex (Brittany Murphy). Then, one day, B-Rabbit gets a chance at redemption, using the current champion in the rap contest. This is an opportunity he could not miss.

Formulaic movies can be in the event that they are well made, and 8 Mile requirements. The film is generally downbeat tone in failsafe relieved of triumphant ending, but along the way, in the movie, is not afraid to show the blue-collar life, as it is now. Moreover, in an intriguing switch, black / white racial division works in the opposite direction. 8 Mile is about a white guy trying to do it in a world dominated by African Americans. B-Rabbit in the black audience, bringing colour barrier first, it must overcome. We have seen this topic explored before, but not from that perspective.

In terms of acting, the real question is whether Eminem can carry a movie. The fact that the scenario for the 8 Mile is a semi-biographical helps, but does not require a star to stretch his range too far. Nevertheless, Eminem acquitting themselves admirably. He understood that the duties, not all words and gestures, it includes body language and eye contact. This is not a great performance, but solid and free of affectations and light years better than recent efforts by acting as wannabes Mariah Carey and Britney Spears. In support cast adequate, although Kim Basinger has one scene, in which it is beyond the painfully-on-top.

While Eminem 8 Mile may be the standard-bearer, it is a very great Curtis Hanson movie. B-Rabbit is in almost every scene, but Henson to stay in the conductor’s omnipresent. Much of the film is only one of the first major clich, but Hanson style gives it greater weight and heft than they could be. This is not LA confidential, but it is effective efforts, and fans of hip-hop as a whole (and Eminem in particular) will be satisfied.

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