![]() ![]() 1 The wrong body - an appellation mostly used in the 1980s for people who have felt themselves to be out of place or out of time - now comes not to claim rightness but to dismantle the system that metes out rightness and wrongness according to the dictates of various social orders. Trans* embodiment, rather, is the visual confirmation that all bodies are uncomfortable and wrong-ish, situated as they are within confining grammars of sense and security. The form of embodiment that, in the 20th and 21th centuries, we have come to call transgender is not simply a gender switching, a wrong body replaced by a right body, a shift in morphology. Connor's quest becomes more treacherous and more surprising as he gets closer to his goal.Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, 1974. ![]() To gain entry to the race, he must prove himself time and again against the most vicious men and women of Sprawl City. His objective: to compete in the Death Race. ![]() Enter Connor ( Zach McCowan), a mysterious new prisoner, a stoic force of nature, whom it appears that no one can defeat in battle. On the outside, Weyland's authorities are near panic they've lost control. To kill him in a Death Race is the only possible way to become the commander of The Sprawl. The primary entertainment: The Death Race - a car race broadcast over "the dark web" to millions of "fans." Only one competitor can survive. A seemingly-indestructible leader, called "Frankenstein" (Velislav Pavlov), rules the bloodthirsty prison population with an iron hand (and an iron mask, as well). To incarcerate the worst of its violent criminals, Weyland International, a private corporation, has created the world's largest prison, called "The Sprawl." Surrounded by a wall from which there's no escape, an entire city has become that prison - a harrowing, isolated place. has suffered a total societal breakdown in DEATH RACE BEYOND ANARCHY. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. This reviewer's screener is Not Rated, announcing on the cover that it's "Unrated & Unhinged." No kids. One has earned an MPAA "R" rating (strong violence and language throughout, nudity and sexual content). ![]() Note: Death Race Beyond Anarchy has been released in two versions. Continuous profanity is heard throughout (i.e., "bastard," "s-t," "p-y," and infinite uses of "f-k" in many forms). While some women take part in the violent action, others are set up as sex objects, writhing in a strip club, exposing themselves (both breasts and full-frontal nudity) and lasciviously seductive. Cameras focus on bloody corpses, dismemberment, and out-of-control beatings to the death. Countless deaths are caused by gunfire, explosions, knifings, decapitation, and savage hand-to-hand combat. Violence, brutality, sexuality, and profanity are in central focus from beginning to end. In this latest entry, a stoic newcomer to the largest privately-run prison in the world, "The Sprawl," attempts to win the upcoming Death Race and dethrone the prison's diabolical leader. Parents need to know that Death Race Beyond Anarchy is the fourth movie in a series that began in 2008 with Death Race, starring Jason Statham, a remake of 1975's Death Race 2000, in which a violent road race to the death is the preeminent entertainment in a dystopian society. ![]()
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