Dead Man's Wire is Cynical True Crime Exploitation
Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire ends with Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” playing over credits and news footage of the 1977 Indianapolis Tony Kiritsis kidnapping. It’s a stylish, ambivalently ironic commentary on America’s obsession with anti-establishmentarian violent spectacle as a substitute for actual change—an obsession which Van Sant is maybe critiquing and maybe just reproducing.
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