Talk:Homicide (1991 film)
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GROFAZ
[edit]Was GROFAZ really used in Germany or is it an invention for this film?
The ending
[edit]The description of the ending in the plot summary is not how I interpreted the film but I wondered how other people saw it. I've seen the movie twice and I took it both times to be a film about radicalization. Bobby Gold is groomed into a cause by a radical group and by the end of the movie, he is carrying out terrorist acts, he had gotten his partner killed and ended his police career - and the final, brutal irony is that the neo-Nazis whose office he blew up had nothing to do with the old woman's murder and he has essentially become somebody just like them. I've read reviews that interpret the movie differently. Roger Ebert saw it more positively, that it was about a man who doesn't fit in discovering his Jewishness. I think that is partly true but in the sense that terrorist groups like jihadists often recruit nihilists to be their foot soldiers, giving them something to believe in and then when they are true believers, giving them a suicide vest. That's the story I felt Mamet was telling both times, in viewings 30 years apart. Any thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C8:A830:9401:C5D6:2F9:ECAF:E306 (talk) 18:28, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- The movie isn't about radicalization. (I happened to watch it last night.) If it were about radicalization the entire case hunting down Rudolph would be superfluous. The movie is about Gold discovering himself and making choices. The two cases are metaphors for the choices Gold needs to make to move forward with his life. He isn't groomed, he chooses to join the zionist organization because he wants to. The neo-nazi hideout is abhorrent to him as soon as he sees it. He blows it up because he sees it as wrong, even though that goes against his being a cop and upholding the law. (BTW the plot description is wrong when it says that he used a nazi bomb. The bomb was brought by the woman and he takes it from her when he goes into the shop. It looks like a laptop when he takes it from her and later when he sets it off.) I guess the list is a line that he won't cross. In the end both cases are solved although there's collateral damage and Gold comes out changed. Gold is not a terrorist at the end of the movie. CurlyMoeLarry (talk) 01:00, 14 January 2023 (UTC)