Review of Dutchman

Dutchman (1966)
3/10
A good idea but...TERRIBLE
13 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
This short film had an interesting premise. It starts with a black man, Clay and a white woman, Lula on a subway. They flirt with each other but Luna acts very strange, she laughs, makes fun of Clay and seems never to stay on topic. She pretends she knows a lot about Clay and talks about his life and his family. She teases him about what they'll do together and says he is a murderer. She continuously eats apples and constantly sys she lies and that he will lie to her after sex. Later in the film, many people get on the subway and Lula starts laughing bumping into people, wanting to rub bellies and other weird activities. Finally, Clay gets really upset and starts shouting about her lunatic behavior. He begins to chase her around the subway and attempts to get her to stop. When she doesn't, the subway goes dim and she stabs and kills clay. Next we see her on a subway with another black man and we know that she will do the same again. Let me be frank: this movie sucked. It was terrible because the conversations dragged on and on and on, with no point. I had no clue what was happening and only understood it at the end. Sometimes, understanding a film at the end is good but this time, I was bored and tired of the movie in the middle. The movie made no point concerning race relations and even if it made a clear one, by the end of the movie, I didn't care. Grade C-
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