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In Reply to: Mystic River: what a crock (spoilers, if it matters) posted by rhizomatic on October 21, 2003 at 08:17:05:

Remember the Adrian Lyne film with Dick Gere and Diane Lane from, what, last year or so? From your review, it and Mystic River seem to have the same weirdly and outrageoulsy immoral endng in common.
Written by, about, and for fatuous, out-of-touch, rich people. The improbability of their getting away with the crime committed is dumbfoundingly preposterous (how did he get night-access to the dump? wouldn't her fingerprints have been all over the apartment? his all over the elevator?); Lane and Gear's willingness to move on together despite her infidelity and his murder leaves one darkly pondering the moral universe of the film's writers and intended audience (and the final scene ending with their resolution in a parked car next to a police station is soooo contrived). There are some nice touches along the way, though. Lane does do a great job (and she is gorgeous), and showing her first sexual encounter by flashback on her train ride back from Manhattan was brilliantly and succinct, the fact of her infidelity subordinated to her reflectin on it after the fact: the scene cuts between her ambivalent recollection (tearful laughter; alternations between shame and joy--"God, what have I done" and "damn, that was great") and her equally ambivalent surrender to seduction (at her beau's ridiculous SoHo loft, full, I might add, with his ridiculous book collection--in one scene, the Strand never looked so good).

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Topic - Mystic River: what a crock (spoilers, if it matters) - rhizomatic 08:17:05 10/21/03 (7)

Hmmm...didn't strike me that way at all... - Harmonia 23:44:08 10/21/03 (2)

But what is that look about? - rhizomatic 06:48:32 10/22/03 (1)

I agree completely - sjb 20:36:53 10/24/03 (0)

yeah you're right, but it didn't bother me. - tunenut 16:58:17 10/21/03 (0)

Your review reminds me of Unfaithful - Bulkington 09:14:00 10/21/03 (2)

Re: Your review reminds me of Unfaithful - Dmitry 10:00:46 10/21/03 (1)

Hey, I like Anna Karenina - Bulkington 13:20:05 10/21/03 (0)

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Your review reminds me of Unfaithful - Bulkington 09:14:00 10/21/03 (2)

Re: Your review reminds me of Unfaithful - Dmitry 10:00:46 10/21/03 (1)

Hey, I like Anna Karenina - Bulkington 13:20:05 10/21/03 (0)

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