As Cher famously noted in song, life can be hard for people of combined Caucasian and Native American descent. That's certainly true for Daniel Pilon's character in Red The Half Breed; he's a "jazzy yellow" Camaro-driving half-Indian outlaw who feels uncomfortable both in white society and among Native Americans. Filled with rage, he expresses his disdain for bourgeois conformity by dumping a tray of fast food on a pair of squares, speeding out of a gas station without paying for gas, and receiving oral sex while driving. Pilon's white half-sister (Fernande Giroux) shares her semi-sibling's disdain for the empty trappings of consumer society, complaining at length about how her shiny new home is "too modern, too chic" before stating calmly, "The Frigidaire looks so intelligent." Driven mad by the frightening intellect of her refrigerator, as well as the lesser-but-still-formidable brainpower of several minor appliances, Giroux drunkenly crashes Pilon's jazzy yellow Camaro. Pilon, meanwhile, remains alienated from mainstream society and his white family, and when the troubled Giroux tries to bond with Pilon's stoic Native American mother, Pilon coolly admonishes his dazed half-sister to leave, then yells, "Tell your husband that the Camaro swings like 'Wow'!" Alas, such insouciance on the part of a sassy chop-shop proprietor cannot go unpunished, and when Giroux turns up dead and foul play is suspected, it isn't long before a drunken posse, made up almost entirely of members of Pilon and Giroux's white family, begins pursuing him. Desperate to find the real killers, Pilon heads for Native American country, where he fails to bond with his kinfolk during a series of sitting-and-waiting scenes sure to bore viewers of all races, creeds, and colors. Tired of his firewater-loving chums, Pilon heads into town to assassinate the real killer during a car show. Tragically, a sniper's bullet cuts down Pilon instead, while a pair of bikini-clad go-go dancers look on in horror.
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