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Summer
of Sam
(1999)
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Looking Closer, review by Jeffrey Overstreet, "searching for truth, beauty
and meaning in the movies." |
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Review, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Health -
Spiritual Practices for Human Being. |
| Themes
 | Clean/Unclean
 | Ritchie's affinity for punk music
and his affectation of different cultural styles leads his community
to suspect him of being the killer - he becomes "unclean"
to them |
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| Dissention/Sectarianism
| Fear of the killer leads the folks
in the neighborhood to begin to imagine which of their own must be
the killer. |
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| Fear
| Fear of the killer,
and fear of their own lack of control over their neighborhood, and
lack of knowledge of any world but their own leads the group to
stalk and attack one of their own who has "become
different" |
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| Institutional Evil
| The scene where
Spike Lee interviews the folks in the black community for "the
darker perspective" on the horror of the killings. The
Son-of-Sam killings are only news because they are happening in the
white neighborhoods. Similar events happen in the black
neighborhoods all of the time, but they are "not news". |
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| Scapegoat
| Ritchie as the scapegoat "sacrifice" for
the fears of the community. |
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| Wrongly Accused
| Ritchie is mistakenly accused of being the killer. |
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