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Cruising is no masterpiece , but even in its butchered form it 's a striking record of the New York leather scene in the late ' 70s , a powerful indictment of police brutality , and typical of much of Friedkin 's work a whodunit that calculatedly fails to tell us " who done it . When his parents asked him " What do you want for your birthday present ? I can remember that the driver was the first person to speak and he said to us ' You do n't know me , today you are going to know me , my name is Tshabalala . Lets give credit where it ’ s do and save the finger pointing for some other time . But in six months , we ' ve done so many things . It ’ s do or die time NOW ! I told him " What do you think of the record business and what do you think of the kind of music that 's coming on and what do you think of this and that ?