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In Reply to: A very poor linkage: posted by tinear on March 15, 2005 at 14:08:22:
What are you referring to when you say that Bacon did not have the gravitas to stand up to Penn? The end scene, when both of them are on the street watching the parade, Bacon knows that Penn is responsible for exacting his revenge. And knows that Penn was wrong, as does Penn, at that point. I suspect that Bacon does nothing because he realizes that (A) Penn was reacting out of anger for loosing his daughter, and not because he was a common thief, and therefore likely to do it again, (B) Because they are old friends, came from the same place, and Bacon happened to make a respectable life for himself, while Penn became a street thug, creating feelings of guilt, whether justified or not, and this was his payback, (C) arresting him would accomplish nothing, except take dad away from his family, knowing that Penn must live with what he did, and (D) Robbins had been tortured from his experience since he was a child, and maybe his torment was over. All, some, or none may apply. Take your pick. But I doubt Bacon's failure to act was because of a lack of gravitas.This is what I admire about Eastwood's recent work. He does not provide the answers, and does not provide the big payoff. Lesser directors would have had some climactic arrest of Penn, police lowering the boom, then the film ends. Some directors think that we need resolution. We need the arrest of the killer. That is justice. Neat and tidy. Eastwood realizes that tidiness does not always happen, and sometimes things just fade away, leaving more questions than answers. Maybe that is why, despite his box office cache, he is relegated to largely raising funds for his movies.
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- Re: A very poor linkage: - jamesgarvin 15:30:16 03/15/05 (2)
- Re: My take - rico 08:15:54 03/16/05 (0)
- Excellent points about Eastwood: who'd have thought after - tinear 16:56:57 03/15/05 (0)
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