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Today I came across M.I.A. “Born Free,”<\/a> directed by Romain Gavras<\/span> and shot by Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Chemetoff. I was reluctant to watch in fear of choking on another “Slumdog,” but I clicked anyway, curious to see what Gavras has been up to since the Jus\u00e2\u20ac\u00a0ice “Stress”<\/a> video.<\/p>\n At first I was blown away by the stunning visuals and use of motion. I was also taken back by what seamed like random apartment raids and acts of police brutality. The lack of plot had my mind racing in all directions as I tried to figure out what was happening. The simplicity of each characters’ motivation put the visuals on a pedestal as very delicate soundbites weaved in and out of another blah M.I.A. song.<\/p>\n When the plot kicks in, it takes the video in a whole different direction. The reality of police brutality and genocide mixed with a white trash ignorant America steams with controversy. But once you look past the “redhead” cliche, dimly lit plot, and the novelty of violence, all you have is a series of beautifully choreographed scenes. And without the touch of Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Chemetoff this would have been another film school thesis.<\/p>\n [NSFW]<\/p>\n [vimeo]http:\/\/vimeo.com\/11219730[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I came across M.I.A. “Born Free,” directed by Romain Gavras and shot by Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Chemetoff. I was reluctant to watch in fear of choking on another “Slumdog,” but I clicked anyway, curious to see what Gavras has been up to since the Jus\u00e2\u20ac\u00a0ice “Stress” video. At first I was blown away by the stunning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}