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Crying Game, The
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Crying Game, The (1992) The beginning of the movie must be bewildering to many Americans. It is set in Northern Ireland, at a South Armagh Fairground. We see an interracial couple: a large black man in a British military uniform and a moderately attractive white woman. The relationship is explicitly, even crudely sexual, and the woman (Miranda Richardson) seems willing to take on the raunchy and drunken black soldier (Forest Whittaker). They find an isolated spot, she pulls him on top of her, and as we prepare to witness interracial sex, three angry white men break in and assault the black man. One might think this was sex and racism Irish style. But, like everything else in the film, it is something other than we think. The apparent sexual escapade was a carefully planned IRA operation. The woman, an IRA operative, intended to trap Jody, the soldier, who is to...
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