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Man on a Wire

Advantages: Grity US drama
Disadvantages: The bc are showing them to close together

80% of the recent so-called US sub prime debt was run up by black Americans, the last group in America to be cynically offered credit to keep those erroneous bonuses coming in for those greedy bankers, the city of Baltimore (65% black) and the setting for 'The Wire' a classic case study of who's bearing the brunt of the consequences, that contrast between poverty and wealth in Baltimore one of the reasons why the show is so authentic, that financial, criminal and political aphartied of the city dissected here through David Simons brilliant script. The banks knew the black families didn't have a cent but offered them 110% mortgages at high interest rates they could never pay back. City authorities are suing the Wells Fargo Bank for the so called 'ghetto loans' because they now have to pick up the pieces now the bubble has burst all over ...

thedevilinme 06.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Wire - Series 3 - Complete (DVD)

Man on wire - 1360 feet up over downtown Manhattan

Advantages: A compelling tale told with warmth and humour by those who lived it
Disadvantages: Unnecessary "reconstruction" scenes used over voiceovers

of this man, who I considered to be a clown, walking on a wire 1,368 feet off the ground. Of course in childhood that number means nothing ? in fact despite the TV coverage Frenchman Phillipe Petit?s feat received in 1974, it wasn?t until I saw the twin towers for myself on my first visit to New York 25 years later that I realised just how high up he had been, and perhaps he wasn?t just a clown after all. ?Man on Wire? is a documentary that explains how Petit came to perform this highwire walk on the 7th of August 1974. And while the star of the show is always Petit, it explains how he was able to pull off the stunt with the help of a motley crew of helpers. Phillipe Petit had been training for the walk for years. Right at the start of ?Man on Wire? he retells reading about these new towers that were being built in Manhattan in a newspaper ...

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Review of Man On Wire

Wire in the Blood

Advantages: Great TV
Disadvantages: The worst of the five series

The BBC`s rather bold policy of showing five series of The Wire back-to-back during the spring and summer evenings is very welcome as it annoying, and certainly all rather frantic if you want to keep up, video tapes piling up by our TVs as the excellent American cop series goes out at that post Newsnight, BBC2, 11:15pm weekday slot. It's a complete mystery why they didn't put it on the 9 pm weekday slot to build its popularity and so drag it out for two years it's that good and intelligent viewing for that anti-ITV prime-time slot. Series one reflected the Black American drug culture of the City of Baltimore, through the eyes of the police, the legislature, the local politicians and the black criminal underclass themselves, their methods not that different from the good guys in getting the job done, whoever the good guys are ...

thedevilinme 11.09.2009 (12.09.2009) · Read full review
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Review of The Wire - Series 2 - Complete (DVD)