BAD LIEUTENANT / LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN

BAD LIEUTENANT:
97 minutes
Abel Ferera’s cult classic - from the seedy underbelly of a crime riddled New York City comes the story of a police officer who is almost as morally bankrupt, ethically void and emotionally vacant as the transgressors he is employed to apprehend. Director Abel Ferrara who has gained a wide-spread cult following for his ‘pull-no-punches’, sensationalist style of directing has once again inimitably outdone himself in this crude, hyper real depiction of a depressingly imaginable reality. Following an unnamed cop around the beat, Ferrara destroys any possible belief in law, order and morality. Instead, reality becomes a bleak, hopeless and pessimistic existence where the anti-hero is a hard-drinking, drug-taking, sexually abusing fiend whose only instance of moral repentance comes when he meets a nun who has been raped, yet forgives her attackers. This simple act of compassion alters his view, and drives him to seek justice in the only way he knows how. The most upsetting, yet most important element of Bad Lieutenant is that this depiction is not so far from reality. This is the world we live in, these are the horrific things that happen and we cannot hide from this. Abel Ferrara does not hide, instead opting to show these atrocities in their full, gory detail. The result is a depressingly real depiction of a depressingly real potential reality

LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (1989):
102 minutes
From Hubert Selby Jr's controversial best seller, comes this gritty screen adaptation of the once-banned novel.
It's 1952, and the rough dock district of Brooklyn is an area in social turmoil. Dockworkers are in the middle of a violent, long-runnning strike and the G.I.s on their way to the Korean War are the target of the violent, thieving locals. The film simultaneously follows episodes in the lives of several of the residents as they all struggle to survive and drive head-long on a tragic course of mutual self-destruction.
A young, hard-drinking hooker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is the bait for a gang of local thieves who rob from her clients. The corrupt union boss (Stephen Lang) begins a homosexual affair with tragic results. A striking dock worker struggles to deal with his unmarried daughter's pregnancy.
It's a harsh, uncompromising look at the seedy underbelly of American society, and a devastatingly realistic movie that is simply unforgettable.

Estimated despatch 5-10 days after ordering.