Rockers

100 Minutes (1978)- Ted Bafaloukos
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Selector: HiGrade

A Trenchtown variant on Robin Hood, this is the Jamaica-set story of a drummer, Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace (playing, like other musicians in the film, a version of himself) who, talented though he is, is mightily fed up with being ripped off by the local music business. Unable and unwilling to survive on occasional recording sessions and gigs, he opts to buy a red motorcycle and distribute records to the sound systems around the island himself. The first result of his part-self-centered, part-idealistic efforts is a severe beating and a stolen bike. An excellent soundtrack, and a script which digresses through explanations of the Rasta faith and countless idiosyncratic solidarity rituals, make for a delightful piece of whimsy. Complete with subtitles transliterating the Rasta patois.

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