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Miércoles, Diciembre 16th, 2009 |
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A/K/A Tommy Chong is an entertaining perceive at the doper comedian’s apt troubles in the early 2000s. For those who don’t remember, the U.S. Government arrested Chong because he sold bongs over the Internet. Filmmaker Josh Gilbert follows Chong to prison (where he served nine months) and covers his life after his release.
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There is a lot to like in this film. The film recounts Chong’s life account and he is an spirited character; he grew up half-Chinese, half-Caucasian in 1950s Canada. Chong also played guitar as a member of the 1960s rock band the Vancouvers, for whom he wrote a top-40 hit (”Does Your Mama Know About Me”) .
The film does a pleasurable job of recounting Chong’s initial meeting with Cheech Marin and the beginnings of their career as “Cheech and Chong.” I did not consider that the film did a particularly profitable job of explaining Cheech’s decision to disband Cheech and Chong. The only interviews with Cheech are archival and Cheech’s absence is positive throughout A/K/A Tommy Chong.
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The presentation of Chong’s drug case is more “hit and miss.” Viewers likely will be fascinated at the steps to which the Feds went to bust Chong. (According to Chong, his company did not ship bongs to Pennsylvania because his employees knew that it was illegal; the film details the contrivances the Feds former to salvage Chong to ship the bongs that ultimately landed him in prison to Pennsylvania) . It is difficult to beget that the U.S. Government spent over $12 million to place Chong in jail. While one may ask whether there was a vendetta against Chong, it is revealing that he was the lone defendant without a prison recount (of 55 charged) to assist jail time.
Other aspects of the film are not as keen. Many of the peripheral characters in Chong’s life appear in the film, but contribute exiguous. Chong’s wife Shelby comes off as his Yoko Ono - an untalented schemer who got her husband to save her on stage. Chong’s cellmate and his son (Paris) both appear in segments that should have been carve. There is a tiring, series of interviews in which people justify how easy it is to design a bong.
The film “stacks the deck” in Tommy’s favor, so you might wonder if there is another side to the record. The Government officials who prosecuted Chong are all but accused of fascism. (Filmmaker Gilbert takes a cheap shot in noting that prosecutor Mary Beth Buchanan grew up in “an all-white town,” as though that alone is sufficient to verbalize her dastardly plans) . Gilbert also includes interviews with self-aggrandizing celebrities such as Jay Leno, Bill Maher, and journalist Eric Schlosser.
In the extinguish, despite its shortcomings, A/K/A Tommy Chong is well worth a examine. Chong recounts toward the slay of the film that many people ask him what prison life is like. Chong said that he replies, “You’ll gain out.” That line made me reflect. Whatever your politics, the film will force you to contemplate what role the U.S. Government should play in regulating drugs and punishing those who shatter drug laws. (Perhaps this is the first Tommy Chong film that ever forced anyone to reflect) . As to whether Tommy is a martyr, a stoner who pushed the Government “over the line,” or a small of both, viewers will have to reflect for themselves.
Tommy Chong’s drug myth is a shadowy narrative told over and over again in our society where someone who is basically harmless and goofy is made an example of by a repressive segment that simply resents his lifestyle. The citizenry did not encourage from this prosecution one bit and, in fact, a lot of money was wasted.
Sure, let’s prosecute scum like the slow Pablo Escobar or some gross life like that but these pointless foolish celebrity cases of an appealing doofus who likes bongs are utterly meaningless.