The underbelly of American history.

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2003)

After the initial fight scene ended leaving a patina of red blood soaked snow covering the area of this gang fight, my memory immediately
returned to Michael Cimino's masterpiece, Heaven's Gate.
Thereafter throughout the film I kept thinking that I was looking at the reality of America's teenage years-the years that don't correspond to Cherry Blossoms, apple pie and all the other "nice" icons of the past in which America wants to wrap itself.
The connections between the embedded violence that Michael Moore examined in Bowling for Columbine and the gestation of the violence examined by Scorsese in this film are far too strong to be ignored.
This historical relationship of violence should be recognized and steps taken to eliminate such immaturity from a country that purports to be leader of the world. I know this national examination will never take place but the threads connecting the past to the present must somehow be cut .