Product: Homicide [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
meanings in homicide
Homicide is mamet on a soapbox, telling americans they can never go home.In the film a policemen of jewish heritage, but by no means a orthodox jew, has the urgings of many americans for roots. The case in which he becomes involved with has to deal with orthodox jews who at first he scorns but then comes to envy. They key in on this and use it against him feeling that he is as much a outsider as any wasp. Mamet shows the policemans mindset in many ways, first by showing racial slurs hurled at him by a angry black city worker at the start of the film, but then later on in the film he meets a hasidic jew who when he tell he can't read hebrew says"then what good are you". after the policeman is heard making anti-semitic remarks himself by a family memember of the case he is working on he goes all out to find the killer, when in actuality they don't care about the homicide at all, but a list that was in the care of the deceased, a list that could expose some of their illegal doings in israel.