Margaret Cho - Assassin
by Kerry Asmussen, Konda Mason
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Actor: Bruce Daniels, Margaret ChoDirector: Kerry Asmussen, Konda Mason
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD-Video, Enhanced, Live, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KOCH VISION
Movie Reviews of Margaret Cho - Assassin
Movie Review: Nothing original said in 10 years.
Summary: 1 Stars
Not anything particularly new and exciting here, just the same cliches you now get in the multi-cultural university. How could anyone say that she is the comedian attacking the right? Are you living in a cave? She is doing the same routines that about 95% of the comedians in the country are doing now. The only difference is her Asian KKK membership. She is more interesting in promoting hate than tolerance, scapegoating white males for everything. For example, the existence of sexism is somehow the fault of WM despite the fact that sexism has a recorded history far longer in India, the Middle East and East Asia than is does in Europe. Yet somehow the origin and existence of sexism anywhere in the world is the result of "whiteness".
This highlights her flaw--she promotes and provides anger, not analysis, not why or how something happened, and certainly no humor. People like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle managed to effectively tackle racism without being racist themselves and while managing to be funny and original.
Summary of Margaret Cho - Assassin
Margaret Cho returns to the concert stage with a "killer" one-woman show that has taken audiences by storm. Filmed live at the Warner Theatre in Washington D.C., Assassin features a fresh dose of Margaret's ground-breaking and controversial brand of humor. Taking aim at the Bush administration and the religious right, she pulls no punches in her assault on the "ever devolving" state of the union. The result is an unforgettable performance featuring Margaret at her raw, irreverent and hilarious best.Margaret Cho gives new meaning to the phrase "blue states" with this typically profane and provocative concert performance that takes dead aim at all things right-wing. Recorded in May 2005, in enemy territory (Washington, D.C.), Assassin is a timely state of the dis-union, as Cho weighs in on gay marriage, the pope, Terry Schiavo, Abu Ghraib, sexual politics, and other hot-button topics. Cho may see herself as a comic assassin, but she is no sniper taking potshots from the cover of the grassy knoll. She puts herself out there. She tells a mostly unprintable story about how she was unwittingly tapped to perform for a group of Republican hotel owners. ("They didn't know who they were getting," she recalls. "It was the worst blind date ever."). The nation is so polarized between left and right, Cho laments, but she doesn't exactly help matters much with statements such as "These Christian groups have lost their minds" and "If you're not a feminist you should kill yourself," or her comment on the red states/blue states map: "That's convenient. Now we have a color-coded map to where all the stupid people are." While not as accessible as I'm the One That I Want, Assassin is less preachy than Cho's more recent concert films. But it is no less impassioned, and she is more than willing to answer the rallying cry of her fiercely devoted fans who, she riffs at one point, seem to look to her like some Asian superhero: "Margaret--do something!" --Donald Liebenson
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