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    Colors (1988)

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    With Dragnet-style gravity, this movie informs us of the 600 gangs, the 70,000 gang members and the 400 gang-related murders in Los Angeles County each year.

    colorsThen LAPD veteran Bob Hodges (Robert Duvall) and eager young recruit Danny McGavin (Sean Penn) are assigned to the city’s special CRASH gang crime division.

    Their own methods are perpetually in conflict. Hodges is the non-violent elder-statesman cop trying to handle the frustrating problem, while McGavin is a hot-shot rookie, given to spray gunning young suspects in the face.

    Yet neither is better than the other at coming to terms with the violence and nihilism of the red-clad ‘Bloods’ and the blue ‘Crips’.

    As virtual war breaks out between the two vicious street gangs – their members armed with machine guns and fuelled with drug money – so the narrative becomes increasingly difficult.

    The street-wise dialogue is hard to decipher, and Hopper’s take on women is unreservedly misogynistic, though Colors rides along on a high-octane aggression that makes plot complications redundant.

    The picture is tense, unpleasant and authentic and is obviously sympathy for both sides of the war, but it’s not particularly enjoyable viewing.

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    Danny McGavin
    Sean Penn
    Bob Hodges
    Robert Duvall
    Louisa Gomez
    Maria Conchita Alonso
    Ron Delaney
    Randy Brooks
    Larry Sylvester
    Grand L Bush
    Rocket
    Don Cheadle
    Bird
    Gerardo Mejia
    Clarence Brown (‘High Top’)
    Glenn Plummer
    Melindez
    Rudy Ramos
    Bailey
    Sy Richardson
    Frog
    Trinidad Silva

    Director
    Dennis Hopper

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