Gangs of New York
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While this may seem extremely distasteful in its blatant stereotyping, it is nevertheless true to the era the movie was trying to portray. Although the word "chink" is thrown around a fair bit (just as the word "nigger" is), I couldn't help but be impressed that the directors didn't turn the movie into some politically correct, antiseptic version of history (as they did with "The Patriot" in which Mel Gibson's character "didn't own slaves; they were all freed men who were working on his farm because they wanted to (!)"). Possibly one of the worst cases of exoticism in the movie is one of Cameron Diaz's costumes which seems to be a bastardized version of a Japanese kimono that looks like it was taken right out of "Charlie's Angels". Regardless, overall, the movie was gritty, blood-ridden, and brutally honest. Grit your teeth through the racial insenstivity, because, it's normally too easy for Hollywood to forget the presence of non-whites in most other major historical epics.
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