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In Reply to: "Mystic River" - some excellent points but disappointing posted by Bambi B on October 27, 2003 at 10:13:04:
I didn't find it sentimental at all. Bacon's the only character who could be said to have a "happy" resolution. (OK, so that's a bit sentimental. Bacon is still carrying around plenty of guilt and failure in his heart. I'm glad his wife and kid came back.))Bacon is clearly NOT letting Penn off the hook. The point of his bang-bang gesture is that Bacon is literally "pointing the finger' at Jimmy, letting us and him know Bacon is going after Penn for Dave's murder. In that context the gesture isn't "absurd", it tells us and Jimmy that it ain't over, in fact, their fates are still intertwined and their story continues.
Sean just let Jimmy go? Ummmm...not exactly. Why didn't Bacon arrest Penn the morning the body was found? Because he couldn't, that's why. What evidence did he have? Nada, not even a body. (Remember, Just Ray's body was *never* found. His family - and everyone else - thought he was alive.) Sean had absolutely nothing that would stand up in a court of law. Only a veiled reference in conversation. Inadmissable.
Nevertheless, Sean's out to nail Jimmy, somehow, someday.
I thought the acting was excellent. And, although I've never read the book, I had the murderer picked out 1/3 through the movie. The clues are all there - it's tragedy of the consequences of past actions reaching into the present thing again.
The key scene here is Penn's agonized guilt over his daughter's death - he says he knows he's responsible in some way for her murder, but he doesn't know how. The movie shows us how.
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- Happy Ending??? What happy ending? - Harmonia 00:48:47 11/01/03 (0)
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