Pariah

The country is America, the city Los Angeles. Inspired by concepts like ''White and Pure Power'' a gang of skinheads is routinely terrorising the people of the area. A young couple are exposed to a very vicious attack: Steve - white - is beaten up and forced to watch as his black partner Sam is gangraped by the gang. Later that night Sam commits suicide and Steve decides to take revenge.
Pariah depicts the closed and claustrophobic world of the skinhead gang. Their slogan is: ''Wake Up White America! Take Your Country Back!''. In their cold and run-down headquarter, neo-nazi attributes hang on the walls, the same symbols they have tattoed on their bodies. Drink, drugs and prostitution is part of everyday life. The racist music creates adrenalin highs in them, which brings them to humiliate eachother and terrorize others. The girls move vaguely and diffusely in the background, but turn the guys on, whose experience of sex is limited to incest and rape.
The director depicts the group as separated from the rest of society and he is looking to demystify the gang's ideas. Pariah is a strong film which deals with the primitive nothing people end up in
when they imagine that they belong to a better race. The film also points out the trap of the lust for revenge. This is what Steve is confronted with.
Some of the actors are amateurs, which reinforces the films hard-corereferences. Pariah has been compared to A Clockwork Orange by the American press. It is dedicated to Martin Luther King, with whose speach the film also opens.
GOL POYRAZ

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Medverkande
DAMON JONES,DAVE WARD,DAVID LEE WILSON: Producent
SHAUN HILL: Manus
RANDOLPH KRET: Foto
Nils Erickson: Musik
SCOTT GRUSIN: Talat språk
English