The trio head to Star City, Arkansas, where they plan to sell the coke to one of Pluto’s contacts. Ray (Billy Bob Thornton), Pluto (Michael Beach) and Ray’s girlfriend Fantasia (Cynda Williams) are three criminals on the lam after murdering six people in Los Angeles to acquire a cache of cocaine and money. You’d think such a hefty idea would be hard to visualize, but Franklin does so with such ease and attention to character that it seems so deceptively simple. Where the harsh realities of white supremacy in the south give way to sudden violence, the same attention is given to the film’s characters living on the margins and navigating a violent situation where they’re at a disadvantage because of their color. Carl Franklin’s One False Movemay be one of the most unheralded of the bunch, and that’s certainly not for lack of trying on behalf of film critics over the years.įranklin’s straightforward, terse direction turned out to be a perfect fit for the script, as he was able to give full, confident realization to the ways in which our institutions demean Black people based upon their social status, even if those people are members of those institutions. It was a beautiful time filled with just hit after hit of wry, unfussy dialogue and crackling violence set within the lives of outsiders. The noir genre certainly made a comeback and with a new fresh coat of paint in the 1990s, with David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Oliver Stone’s U-Turn and David Fincher’s Seven all putting their weight behind playing with the noir tropes within a modern setting.
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