In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.

[EX Q]: capsule : earthy , experimental , difficult , shockingly frank ( even for 1997 ! ) , and ultimately refreshing story of a black man on the run from the cops .
the first few minutes of sweet sweetback 's baad asssss song ( yes , i checked --
that 's the correct number of ss )
are without dialogue , just eerie montages of sounds .
a young boy , obviously malnourished , is taken in and fed up by several loving mother - surrogate figures .
then one of them takes the boy to bed for a sexual initation ( underneath the title credits ) that 's far more confrontatory and shocking than any ten basic instincts -- probably because it has the directness and clumsiness of real life , something we 're not used to seeing on screen .
this is one tough movie to swallow , no matter who you are , but that probably reflects more on how pallid and unchallenging movies have gotten lately .
( i suspect the sex scenes in movies like el topo and salo would probably melt the synapses of most modern audiences . )
the plot is simple but not simpleminded .
sweetback , hassled by two white cops who are apparently just looking for an excuse to beat up on a black man , breaks his bonds and runs like hell .
along the way he moves through a good many of the kinds of environments that we are only just now being seen in a more serious light in the movies -- or at all , for that matter : the slums , the missions , the ghetto .
in other , lesser , movies , sweetback would be machine - gunning everything in sight and the end credits would roll over a pile of bodies ; in this one , we get taken on a kind of a tour of the depressing and anarchic world that sweetback takes for granted .
ssbas first appeared in 1971 and was promptly rated x ( " by an all - white jury " , as director melvin van peebles crowed in his legendary ad campaigns ) , and it 's hardly surprising why .
there 's a good deal of sex in the movie , but it 's handled in a way that 's unsettlingly frank -- a frankness that spills over into the rest of the movie .
in one scene , sweetback visits a friend 's house in the hope of getting sanctuary there , and the other man chats him up while on the toilet .
we 're not used to coming this close to people in real life , let alone in the movies -- especially not people who are not made out to be glamorous .
the movie is also full of experimental stylistics that are relatively unused today , but probably because of that seem curiously fresh and new in van peebles ' hands .
one scene , in which a man is interrogated by the cops , is loaded full of menacing energy as they fire off a gun inches from his ears , and suggest his deafness through a cleverly edited soundtrack .
another note : ssbas is not so much anti - white ( that would be too easy ) as anti - authority , and as the movie goes on to demonstrate , authority exists in many forms -- governments , churches , and even the paranoid inside of one 's own mind .
ssbas is ultimately about thirsting for freedom -- and it looks like we could use a little more of that in our movie diet , god knows .
[EX A]: P

[EX Q]: one of the funniest carry on movies and the third with a medical setting .
the main story is about dr .
james nookey ( jim dale ) who is disliked by his superiors , frederick carver , head of the hospital ( kenneth williams ) , and dr .
ernest stoppidge ( charles hawtrey ) who seems to dislike everyone .
they attempt to cause him as much trouble in the hospital as possible and all the blame is laid on nookey .
carver learns of a possible job opportunity from wealthy ellen moore ( joan sims ) on a distant tropical island and gets nookey trannsferred there .
when nookey arrives at this island , he meets gladstone screwer ( sid james ) who has lived on the island just about all his life .
screwer is in possession of a wonderful slimming drug made from natural ingredients .
dr .
nookey returns with the drug to england and sets up a new slimming business with ellen moore 's financial backing .
however , nookey and moore face opposition from screwer who goes to england to cash in on the drug , and carver and stoppidge who want to know the ingredients to create a rival drug .
the performances are all very commendable .
sid james has a slightly ambiguous character to play this time and he excels in his role .
kenneth williams , as usual , plays the unpopular and cunning head of the hospital .
joan sims is entertaining as the wealthy benefactor and jim dale should really head the cast with his excellent portrayal of bumbling nookey .
charles hawtrey plays an ' out - of - character ' role as dr .
stoppidge , the nasty and evil practitioner who wants to knock nookey off his perch .
some critics have said that this combination of hawtrey and stoppidge does not work well , but i think that it at least gives hawtrey a new part to play instead of the usual dimwit characters .
as a matter of fact , hawtrey is suitably cunning in the part .
other regulars in the movie include hattie jacques as the matron yet again ( but this part is probably her most boring ' matron ' ) and barbara windsor as nookey 's love interest and unofficial ' women 's lib ' campaigner , goldie locks .
both jacques and windsor play their parts well
.
patsy rowlands appears briefly as miss fosdick , and there are very small cameos from wilfrid brambell ( from ' steptoe and son ' fame ) and peter butterworth .
the jokes are mostly very funny , the story is quite appealing , and the regulars seem interested in what they 're doing .
although it is another medical carry on movie and some of the jokes are borrowed from previous movies , it still comes out on top
( it is the best medical carry on ) because of the above factors .
a must - see carry on movie .
[EX A]: P

[EX Q]: there is a scene in patch adams in which patch is in the center of a courtroom , surrounded by people who are giving him a lively standing ovation because of his strong - worded attack on a group of stoic doctors .
when i noticed that the audience with whom i saw this film was reacting the same way , i realized that i was going to have a hard time finding someone who agrees with me about the quality of the picture .
you see , patch adams revolted me beyond all boundaries .
i hated this movie for every second that i sat watching it , and i actively hate it now , days later , with the simpering , superficial , nauseatingly sentimental images forever plaguing my memories .
i hate every element of the film , beginning with tom shadyac 's shameless direction , and all the way up to the misguided and mishandled themes that the screenplay wants so desperately to convey .
the badness of patch adams is stupefying .
it 's confounding .
i ca n't believe a film can be this bad .
and yet , it 's based on a real man who probably has a good point to make .
in the film , patch is played by the undefeatable and indefatigable robin williams , in
a performance of such insulting pathos and sledgehammer sympathy that i wonder now if he is even human .
in the beginning of the film , patch commits himself to a mental institution because he does n't want to kill himself .
while there , he notices that the doctors do n't care about the patients , and that the best way to get through to the patients is to treat them like human beings .
so , patch goes on a crusade to be a great doctor who actually talks to his patients .
he goes to medical school , where he meets truman ( daniel london ) and convinces him that it 's good to help people .
he also meets carin fischer ( monica potters ) , the anti - male med student who just wants to go through the motions and be a successful doctor .
naturally , the dean of the medical school ( bob gunton ) hates patch , and wants to thwart his plans , even though patch gets the highest scores on all of his exams .
so patch decides that he 's going to build a free clinic in the middle of nowhere to help people with any problem they may have .
and that , my friends , is the synopsis for what is easily the most abhorrent picture of 1998 .
on a superficial level , the film is not particularly bad : i would n't say the cinematography bothered me , and most of the performances seem to be exactly what shadyac was aiming for
( i actually liked potter 's performance , even if she is wasted ) .
but the film fails fundamentally in execution .
every scene swells with grand , " emotional " music , played at maximum volume just to get us all to cry real hard .
take , for instance , the first scene , which shows patch sitting on a bus .
we do n't know patch yet , but there 's sad music , and it 's supposed to make us really sad that he 's sad .
later on , patch makes a lot of progress : he helps a dying patient ( peter coyote ) to enjoy the last days of his life , and the music as patch is pushing the patient recklessly through the halls of the hospital is very lively .
and when that patient finally dies ( spoiler alert ! )
, the music is very very sad . but the problem with all of this is that the music should not be the center of the emotions .
real drama is character - based .
you grow to like someone , and then something bad happens , and you feel it .
we do n't ever grow to know the dying patient ; he 's simply a vehicle for patch 's greatness .
real drama does n't seem forced , or present just to make the audience cry .
that 's why patch adams is not real drama .
it goes for every cheap tear imaginable , wringing tired and overbearing sentimentality out of every scene .
even scenes that have very little impact on the overall film are drowning in marc shaiman 's sickening musical score .
sentimentality like this is indeed bad .
but it 's not as bad as half - baked , simplistic themes .
you see , patch is a really great student .
he aces his tests without studying , and does it so effectively that people think he 's cheating .
but patch does n't think that memorizing facts is the way to become a good doctor .
"
why do n't we see patients until the third year ?
"
he bursts out every three seconds .
well , patch , that might have something to do with the fact that you need to learn something before you go treating patients .
not everyone has the capability of memorizing facts with no effort .
most of us have to study .
and a doctor who really wants to help , but does n't know a toe from a finger , probably wo n't be too successful in preventing death .
oh wait
, i almost forgot : the point of doctors is not just to " prevent death , " but to " improve the quality of life !
" yes !
that is true !
and you can not do that without studying .
you can not do that without going to medical school .
what patch never seemed to understand was the possibility that maybe , just maybe , it is a good idea to study first and talk to patients later .
follow the rules ?
bah ! who needs the rules !
only uptight doctors follow the rules .
the real saviors are the ones running around the hospitals with big red spheres on their faces and sporting baggy yellow pants .
and then there 's the free clinic issue , which i find shockingly , frighteningly idealistic .
a free clinic .
in the middle of the forest .
where patients can be taken to be helped . for free .
how will patients be transported to the free clinic ?
will it have an emergency room ?
or is it just for mental patients ?
and who , may i ask , will pay for it ?
the film does give some token attempts to question patch 's motives ( i think another character asks him how he 's going to pay for it , in addition to a little bit of meaningless blather about hmos and medical insurance ) , but they certainly do n't explore or challenge patch 's ideas to any meaningful extent .
reader , please understand this : i am not making any kind of judgment on the real patch adams .
i know nothing about him .
if his beliefs mirror those of this film character , then i might like to have an intelligent discussion with him about them .
but regardless of what the real patch adams believes , the themes put forth in this film are simplistic and phony .
and in the last scene , the big , obligatory courtroom scene that forced my lunch halfway up my esophagus , patch does a lot of shouting .
actually , robin williams does a lot of shouting .
he shouts a lot about helping people , and a lot of people cry because they are moved by his words .
i wo n't tell you that you ca n't be moved by his words , because i , too , was moved by his words .
i was moved in such a profoundly negative way that i was reminded of how cheap and phony a cinematic experience can be .
patch adams is the cheapest of them all .
[EX A]:
N