The Harder They Come review – Jimmy Cliff falls hard in visceral revenge western
msn.comGallery: The 25 best Gen-X films (Yardbarker)Ivan is humiliated and traumatised by corporal punishment handed down by the courts for a first offence, eight strokes of the tamarind switch – a horribly explicit scene.
He then goes on a violent cop-killing rampage to promote his single, which duly becomes a massive hit and he sends photos of himself in cowboy-gunslinger poses to the papers.
As the army closes in, Ivan has a new plan, to escape by boat to Cuba, where they will appreciate his radical outlaw vocation: “Revolutionary to Ras …”The reggae soundtrack throbs and crunches and shudders in concert with the raw energy of Henzell’s storytelling and Cliff’s performance, but this doesn’t preclude a shrewdly self-aware debate about representation.
At one point Hilton demands to know from Jones if they are banning Ivan’s single. His reply is: “Yes, if it glorifies crime. ” Hilton responds: “Banning it from the hit parade?
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