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Renegade [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Djimon Hounsou, Tchéky Karyo, Geoffrey Lewis, Juliette Lewis
Director: Jan Kounen
Format: AC-3 Closed-captioned Colour Dolby Dubbed DVD-Video Subtitled Widescreen NTSC
Released: 02 Nov 2004
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The special effects are absolutely mesmerizing - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 22 Sep 2007
Inspired from the French comic strip Blueberry, this film is an attempt at going beyond what a comic book cannot provide but cinema special effects offer galore. We can thus descend into a visualization of alll the phantasms & haunting guilt or frustrations that possess one's psyche. That dimension is extremely interesting & marvelously successful. The meaning itself is rather simple: the greed of some white looters looking for the gold of Indians against the magic of Navaho Indians to protect their land, their riches, their sacred mountains & their sacred world beyond the surface of things. Blueberry is in-between because he was raised by the Indians but he has become the Marshalll of a smalll city through which the looters are going. Note the Indians can successfully defend their heritage only thanks to a white man who has made the effort of understanding them. I find this slightly biased even if truthful in a way. The second lesson is that the magic attributed to the Indians is nothing but a trancelike state induced by some beverage that makes the individual confront his own deepest fears & frights, desires & wishes. One has to ,confront these demons & vanquish them, conquer them, in order to come back rejuvenated, enhanced in one's life. Apart from that the film is slightly simple in content but it is saved by the digitalized special effects that become like graphic art.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines