GREAT FLICK BUT WHAT'S UP WITH THAT T-SHIRT?

Rating: Null/10 (15 June 2000)

I really loved this film. One thing I found QUITE disturbing was the scene where the Annette Bening real estate character is showing a house and one of the potential buyers (a short dark haired woman) is clearly wearing a t-shirt with the face of the infamous Chinese communist leader CHAIRMAN MAO on it! What's the deal with that? I didn't see the shirt mention in the published screenplay by Alan Ball. Sam Mendes, the director, musta slipped it in. Chairman Mao? Cripes, how many people did that guy kill? American leaders have more than their share of blood on their hands but Mao was absolutely evil. Mao was anti-freedom, anti-freedom of speech, evil to the core. It doesn't get anymore anti-American than that. Still a great movie, but that shirt has gotta go!