THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, 2001
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The Fast & The Furious is loosely based on an article in a magazine about street clubs that race Japanese cars late at night. Domenic Toretto is the leader of a street gang that is under suspicion of stealing expensive electronic equipment. Brian O'Connor is an undercover police officer attempts to find out who exactly is stealing the equipment, while falling for Domenic's younger sister, Mia.

REVIEW:

I entered the Fast & Furious experience very late in the game. In fact, I never even heard about the film into a year after it opened. I was living in a fog most of the time in 2001 and I can’t remember much.

It the summer of 2002 I was visiting an old friend of mine in my home town when I got to know about THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS. My friend and his friends are your typical middle to upper middle class suburbia-nites. They all have a good job, work 40 hours a week, sustain a marriage while raising a few kids. They are living the life as far as many people are concerned. They have a lot of time (the last time I worked 40hrs a week or less was...never!), and they have a disposable income.

Throw those two together and you have people with a lot of toys. Grown up toys like jet-skis, stereo systems and cars! Definitely cars. This is a group of people who love cars. Love talking about cars, going to car shows, working on cars, and of course driving cars. So THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS is the perfect film for them. And they all loved this film.

I was hanging out at my friend’s friends home in suburbia-land one night, drinking some Buds, smoking some illegal stuff and watching THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS. By the time I came around, most of these guys have seen the film at least 5 times before. And most of them didn’t really care about the story, as they all wanted to see was the cars and the car chasing scenes. They started talking about a language I had no idea about.

And to all of them me not knowing about cars really pissed them off. Not that they were snobby about it as they liked people who were not car fans. They all married people who didn’t like cars. But I was grown up by a father who was an upper level executive at General Motors and with that job came a lot of cars at my disposal.