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Saturday, December 10, 2011

J. EDGAR (2011) B+

J. Edgar

J. Edgar is a pseudo-documentary about the public and private life of the leader and the originator of the FBI. He is a perfect example of the average American politician. He was sort of the comic face of federal law enforcement in America for almost fifty years. This movie (and other references) depict him a a closet homosexual who had psychotic symptoms that possibly led from the suppression of who he really was sexually.

Hoover helped create the image of the FBI as a large and efficient crime-fighting agency. Unfortunately, he was so obsessed with what he considered the "communist conspiracy" to overthrow our government, therefore, the FBI didn't fight Prohibition and organized crime in an effective manner. He did however, institute a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.

The movie also deals with him illegally exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI and using the FBI to to amass secret files on the wrongdoings of political leaders so he could harass and blackmail them and remain in power. A true American patriot!

History will ultimately remember him as an example of a failure mode of our political system.

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Warren is retired and lives in Florida where he runs a foreign movie program for adults. He subscribes to NETFLIX and uses Rotten Tomatoes as one of the sources for selecting movies to review.

Started watching movies at about eight years old and was strongly influenced by "Fantasia" for it's combination of music and fantasy. He was profoundly impacted in his early teen years by the social content in "I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG".

As a kid he used to enter the movie house in the middle of a double feature and leave when the movie reached the part where he came in. Loved serials and was able to see most double features for ten or twenty-five cents.

A graduate of Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY), he strongly believes that good movies . . . with mature content . . . are a significant supplement to education and insight into the world around us. No egghead, he also believes that "It's A Wonderful Life", "Young Frankenstein", "The Producers", West Side Story", and "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" are great films.