Movie: The Inside Man

It started raining early evening and the temperature dropped very quickly. A few of my cousins and I decided to catch a movie and we ended up seeing The Inside Man. The movie was really cool. I enjoyed the well-written screenplay. The movie cost $7.50 with a student discount. Thank goodness for my student ID! I think I've used it for discounts more after graduating for sure.

It was definitely a Spike Lee movie with the randomly thrown in messages to society. There's a kid playing a PSP and the game he is playing eerily resembles Grand Theft Auto. There's also a severe case of a Sikh having his civil rights violated by the NYPD because he's mistaken to be Arab. The movie was set in NYC and it was superbly cool to see all these places that I've been walking past in the movie. Eerily, one of the random scenes of the city showed a restaurant that I ate at earlier in the week.

Don't read any further if you don't want to spoil the movie.

The interesting message in the movie was about how during World War II, many Jews were sold out by their own people. In this particular case, a Jewish man sold out other Jews to get rich and he ended up using the money to start a bank in NYC. Although I haven't read any proof, there's also a general feeling in the city that many of the banks and investment houses that were started by Jews were started under similar circumstances. Interesting view, and if it's true, it's really sad.

Of course low morals, violence and crime is horrible in society. But when the perpetrators end up harming their own people, and the victims are their own...it makes it so much worse I think.