| TOP
OF THE HEAP
Taking the familiar Blaxploitation plot
line of “me vs. the Man” and
mixing it with a kind of Walter Mitty
meets Fellini structure is certainly something
you don’t see every day, but writer/director/star
Christopher St. John has created just
that in his genre challenging film “Top
of the Heap”.
St. John plays a Washington DC cop who
is not well loved by his peers in the
police force or the people in his neighborhood.
He deals with his personal culture clash
by obsessing about an apparent upcoming
promotion in the force. When the promotion
goes to an under qualified white man,
he goes off the deep end and enters a
violent fantasy world filled with hallucinatory
images of black panthers, jungle natives
smashing watermelons, and a literal trip
to the moon! A highly underrated genre
classic.
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