Sam Riddle, a Detroit political consultant who did 37 months in federal prison for accepting bribes along with Monica Conyers, is among filmgoers who doesn't like "The Great Gatsby" movie.
In his case, it has nothing to do with Leo DiCaprio's acting or Baz Luhrmann's direction.
Riddle sees a "a celebration of whiteness and class bias" in the splashy film, as he says in a Michigan Citizen column:
“Gatsby” reminded me of what is happening to the city of Detroit right now. White folk are cheering and partying, flaunting the law of the land pouring ‘em down, while their minstrel Emergency Manager has the stage.
Bright media-driven lights bounce all around the democracy-destroying event of our times as we listen to the dystopian hip-hop beat."
Now there's a distinctive interpretation that the critics at the local papers, Brian McCollum and Tom Long, somehow missed.
-- Alan Stamm
