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"Chopper": Grotesquely humorous.....

Posted by mr grits on June 28, 2008 at 18:46:12

Eric Bana plays Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read who is Australia's most celebrated felon and convict. The tales of his criminal exploits are legendary along the lines of Billy the Kid or Jesse James. Those tales were put in print by Chopper himself who proclaims he can't even spell. So far, Chopper has written NINE bestsellers all based on his knowledge and experiences of crime.

Bana plays a somewhat pathologically disturbed Chopper who seems capable of withstanding any physical abuse, capable of any crime, and sensitive enough to cry about it afterwords. The action begins in prison where he stabs a competing gang's leader a half dozen times in the head. Fearing total retribution, his own gang members attack Chopper and stab him a half dozen times. Does Chopper cry? Naah, he has a "may I have another" attitude and stays on his feet until his distraught homies entreat him to lie down until the screws and medic to come. Chopper is a case, a real case who has a tetch of paranoia. He figures he's going to get killed in his cell block so he has a homie cut his ears off. Yeah, we get to see it. No cry baby this Chopper. (So far all this really happened.)

Chopper gets released and goes home after tens years in the slam to his attentive dad who's waiting up for him. Dad has carefully saved his pistols, knifes, and knuckle "duster". When dad drops it in his lap he says, "It's like putting on a suit." And when Chop Chop leaves for the evening dad tells him at the front door: "Be careful, son." A father's day card is in order.

We see anecdotes of Chopper's criminally chaotic life before we see him, once again, in the cell block watching a television interview of himself about his latest book.

This film can give you the queasies so's it's not for everyone. But if you do watch it, your will be on the road to "Harden the fuck up."

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