Other cops cruising the neighborhood look the other way. Entertainment Weekly reports that the Shaft shoot was an exceptionally troubled one, rocked by feuds between Singleton and Jackson on one side, and the white producer Scott Rudin and primary screenwriter Richard Price on the other. The compromises are evident throughout the film. Yet Shaft, the movie hero, has always been a middleman, threading his way between black and white worlds. The difference now is that the center barely holds.
Cops are utterly corrupt.
I t's a long way from Shaft in Manhattan to Jim Carrey, with a split personality, in Rhode Island. Both Mary and Irene are visually undistinguished and terribly overlong. See birds crap in Jim's open mouth. Gasp as he suckles at a woman's breast, a milk stain covering his upper lip when he's through. The adolescent fascination with bodily functions, the bad-boy willingness to mock the unmockable, like the disabled, has become a Farrelly brothers hallmark.