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"The Real Toronto" underground DVD
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| jdjd |
Has anybody seen this? Where can I download it, or is it worth paying the $10?
For anyone who doesn't know what it's about, here's a description:
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The Real Toronto is the city's hottest underground DVD, a 1 hour 5minute film shot this spring that screens like a disturbing trailer forthe summer that followed, when young black men gunned each other downweekly in blighted neighbourhoods from North York to Scarborough.
Filmed with a handheld digital video recorder by a 22-year-old Russianimmigrant, Real Toronto purports to show viewers, "the reality ofliving in housing projects and some of the most run-down areas of thecity."
It's one part rap video, one part ghetto travelogue and, its producerfears, one part police evidence, depicting young men blasting shotguns,flashing rounds of ammunition in broad daylight and bragging aboutbullying neighbourhood informants.
"I wanted to show that what people rap about really does happen," saidMadd Russian, the film's director and producer, who didn't want hisreal name used.
In one scene, a young man at the Teesdale projects in southwestScarborough explains, "We're so real, we'll take you to the snitch'sdoor."
Standing in a dimly lit hallway in a highrise at 40 Teesdale Place, theman and a friend point to the "snitch's" apartment and explain he's tooafraid to take his garbage to the chute, leaving it in the hallwayinstead.
"We check his house every hour on the hour," the man says.
At Jane and Finch in North York, though, real-life street violencemerges with the stylized glamour of gangster rap videos. A half-dozenyoung men gather in a semi-circle inside an apartment building,bandanas covering their faces, as each takes turns showing off his gun.One flashes what looks like an Uzi submachine gun while another bragsabout his "40 Cal." pistol from underneath a maple leaf do-rag.
The DVD tours nine neighbourhoods and in each, locals answer Russian'sbasic question, "What's it like growing up here?" with the same mix ofpride and despair. Complaints about poverty and police mistreatmentmingle with gun-wielding braggadocio and boasts about "hos, cars andcash."
With help from two local rappers, Russian was introduced to locals inone of the neighbourhoods where he filmed and word began to spreadabout the thickly accented white kid offering a chance to mouth off oncamera. Being an immigrant, he says, helped him gain the trust of youngmen who also consider themselves outsiders. "They didn't see me aswhite."
Russian says Real Toronto is pure documentary and refuses to judge his subjects.
"This is their side of the story. What they said is what they said. Iput it out because it's something people don't get to see." |
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| dEsidEL |
interesting .. man it could be worse.. atleast it isn't the way it is in France at the moment ..
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| Pettiscool |
| thx for the link |
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| alefort |
| Thanks for the interesting read and the torrent link. Will help seed once I am done. |
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| Billche |
It's not even worth the download.
This has got to be the dumbest movie I have ever seen. Violence will happen anywhere, at any time, and stupidity like this just promotes it by making people think its cool. |
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| Tb. |
| i didnt read the discription, i thought this was a documentary about the scene for some reason...man was i disapointed |
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| Tb. |
| What i find interesting in this documentary is the rationality for crime, and how one of the homeboys complains how theres nothing to do, they dont even have a rec room or a bball court, theres absolutely nothing else to do but get drunk, gangbang and sell drugs. Idiots. |
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| l]evil |
only finch and scarb? what about downtown? regent
im dling as i speak, ill add comments after watching :toothless |
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| [NFC]Wave |
5 minutes in and all it is is black guys thinking they can rap wandering around the street.
I really hope this picks up....
And for the love of god, why the hell does he keep repeating "You know what I'm sayin' ?"
Dammit.. I want an AKA nickname.... Chris Allen, AKA...something, AKA...something else, AKA....etc :rolleyes: |
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