Hi mom!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hi mom! |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Brian De Palma |
| script | Brian De Palma, Charles Hirsch |
| production | Charles Hirsch |
| music | Eric Kaz |
| camera | Robert Elfstrom |
| cut | Paul Hirsch |
| occupation | |
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Hi mom! is a black comedy from 1970 directed by Brian De Palma . The main actor is Robert De Niro in his fourth film.
action
The young photographer Jon Rubin has returned from the Vietnam War and is now supposed to record private sex games with hidden cameras for the porn producer Joe Banner. When something goes wrong, he loses his job and gets more and more into the political underground of the New York scene.
He comes across a radical group of African Americans who want to show White Anglo-Saxon Protestants what it means to be a person with dark skin. In a later performance it is shown how the fair-skinned audience wears black shoe polish on their faces and is terrorized by dark actors with white make-up. The white members then try to escape from the building, but are lured into an elevator. While two dark-skinned people (still painted white) rape a white spectator, Jon Rubin, disguised as a New York police officer, arrives and arrests white spectators believing that they are African American.
background
Hi mom! takes over the subject matter of Brian De Palma's anarchist gang film Greetings (1963) and “politicized the 'Peeping Tom' material with slogans that were popular at the time”. In the USA, the influx of people from the rising counterculture made the film so successful that De Palma received an offer from Warner Bros. to direct the comedy Help, I'm Successful (1972, original title: Get to Know Your Rabbit ). The film is reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's window to the courtyard with its filmic observations , but also of the style of Jean-Luc Godard's avant-garde films.
The film was initially only released for people over the age of 18 due to the depictions of sexual violence. After the film was cut, the film received an R rating .
Web links
- Hi mom! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hi mom! at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hi, Mom! G + J Entertainment Media , accessed January 2, 2014 .