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Movie: The Last Supper

Movie: The Last Supper


Directed by Stacy Title

The Last Supper, by Dan Rosen, supposedly dares to take on deep subjects
in a vein of sarcastic humor. But, what it says is that liberals, because of
their belief, have the right to pass death sentences on opponents. The story was
amusing at times and there was some comedy in the film, but it didn't really go
anywhere. The most famous actor in the film was Mark Harmon, and they showed
him for about one minute, before he got killed.
The movie takes place in Ames, Iowa. The film is about five liberal
graduate students living together, (three males and two females) that enjoy
inviting different guest over every Sunday for dinner. The students indulge
their sense of superiority by inviting those that they regard as being less
enlightened. They enjoy having different types of discussions dealing with all
different types of topics. Their first guest that we see, ends up being a
trucker who gives one of the five students a lift home because his car broke
down. They invite the trucker in to eat, because they had an extra seat at the
table and their originally invited guest could not make it for dinner. The
trucker ends up being an anti-Semite and he is also an ex-marine. Immediately
after the trucker sits down at the table to eat he starts pointing out to the
five students that he hates Jews and that they always try to bargain down
anything that they buy. All five of the students are stunned by the remarks
that the trucker is making, especially one of the students that is Jewish. They
all get into a heated argument and the trucker goes out of control; in addition,
he grabs the Jewish student and puts a knife to his throat. They are all
shocked by this and they immediately attempt to calm the trucker down. He
releases the Jewish student and then breaks an arm of another student who was
trying to free the Jewish student. The Jewish student picks up a butcher's
knife and stabs the trucker in the back, which...