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Old December 8th, 2003 #1
Derrick Beukeboom
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Default Movie Review: Radio

Mentally disabled Black becomes hero in SC town!

I saw the movie Radio sometime last month and was planning to write a review but was too busy at the time. Since the new forum has few and far between intelligent subjects, now might as well be as good a time as any to write this review.
Radio is based on the somewhat true story of a negro twenty something mentally disabled man named James Kennedy who wanders the streets of the small football crazed town of Anderson, SC circa 1976. The movie is directed by Michael Tollin, not sure if this is a jew or not. Not that it really matters at this point in history since Hymiewood IS effectively run by jews anyway so who cares if a director is a goy?

Anyway, the opening scene pretty much sets the course as you witness the mentally retarded James (played by Cuba Gooding) pushing his shopping cart full of cans and other useless miscellaneous stuff as cars zoom past. It is a pathetic site to behold. Nigger or no nigger, it's hard not to feel some basic human sympathy for this sad mishappen creature. You see this guy walking with immense effort to stay balanced with his second hand raggity clothesand oh, man, what a set of teeth on poor James Kennedy. They are in really bad shape.viously, its not his fault he was born like this, but it would have been better if he was just another stain on a bedsheet and not condemned to a life of misery and hopelessness.
Ah ha - but that is not the story. Ed Harris plays the masculine but sympathetic coach of the local high school, Harold Jones. One day, as poor James is walking past the football practice fields, Coach Jones sees this creature and of course feels sad for him. It just so happens that one of the footballs is kicked over the fence and into the path of James's cart. Some cocky jock football players (white) berate James to throw them the ball back over. Naturally, the retarded James can't do it, so he puts the ball into his cart as another item he finds. The jocks let him go but have a nice laugh.

The story picks up again when one day Coach Jones sees some of his football players hanging around suspiciously by a shed on the field. His instincts tell him something's not right especially when he hears some noises sounding like a wounded dog stuck in a vice coming from the shed. He opens the door and sees the retarded James tied up and gagged like a baby calf being roped in a rodeo. James is squirming and scared when he sees Coach Jones approach to save him. After he is cut loose, James runs as fast as the devil away from these evil White men.
The players are punished by running for a few hours. The key racial aspect of this scene is that out of about 8 jocks who tie up James, only 1 is a nigger.
Hmmm, high school football in SC, ok, maybe.

Coach Jones feels sorry for James and one day invites him to hang around practice. Over time, he becomes his little pet project. Coach reallt takes a liking to Radio - James is fascinated by Radios, hence his nickname - Radio!

Anderson high doesn't havethebest season, they are kind of average. Most of the players take a liking to Radio right away, but there is one holdout. A brown haired, blue eyed all american jock sort of guy - the evil White superstar jock.
This fella is the atr athlete on both the football team and mostly white basketball team. Of course he gives radio the most shit and stil is skeptical of him. Plus, radio is the new team mascot and this deflects attention away from this star athlete. The principal is a niggress who likes Radio, but thinks Coach Jones is standing up for him a little too much. Jones starts to losetouch with his wife and cute White southern belle daughter who are jealous of Radio and Coach's realtionship.

The state sends a pencil neck geek who is a policy drone and wants to get Radio away from the other students since he is "special".
The movie takes some cheap shots by throwing in Radio's hard working poor Mother's death by heartattack and the pressure that the principal and the state put on Jones to remove Radio from hanging around the school and students.

Ok, the jock comes around and befriends Radio and Radio gets a high school degree for special kids and the town worships him. He is now an insitution and is an assistant coach for the Anderson football team and leads them out on the field for games and sometimes joins the white cheerleaders in cheering on the team. Great, isn't it?
Blah, blah, blah.....the movie ends with the real Radio n the sidelines of a recent football game trying his best to coach and give motivation in his charming retarded way.
The theater was really touched and the few people there had some wet eyes.
Cute and heartwarming.

Racial mesage in a nutshell: a mostly White, de facto segregated Southern town can learn to 'broaden their horizons' and learn to love and appreciate those less fortunate than themselves. The movie uses almost every trick in the book to make you feel sorry for Radio and his hopeless condition.
But life is not too bad for Radio - he is the charm of the town now and officially employed by the school board as a coach.
A warm movie, but of course laden with all the racial stereotypes from the jew/liberal perspective: blacks are poor, harmless, innocent and pose no problems for others.
Coach Jones plays the role of white savior to the blacks quite well - not a prejudice bone in his Xthian body, unlike many in the town who are uncomfortable around the retarded radio.
Radio charms the town and helps them all grow.....
and of course accept those that are different from themselves.

Gooding played the mentally disabled Radio quite well. Fine acting ability I must say, but somewhat predictable.

4.5 out of 10, but loaded with cheap cliches and simplicity.

Most WNs' won't care too much for it, but you will be able to dicipher the hidden agenda within the movie.
 
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