Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by rhizomatic (A) on March 16, 2005 at 12:55:52

In Reply to: A very poor linkage: posted by tinear on March 15, 2005 at 14:08:22:

Fine acting doesn't change the fact that both films are melodramatic pabulum directed at people for whom that sort of ill-lit overseriousness is the uppermost limit of 'culture.'

Mystic River doesn't really have a 'storyline'--just a bunch of people sitting around looking pensive and saying Grim Working Class Folk sorts of things--until the last twenty minutes of the movie, at which point it unspools possibly the cheapest plot 'twist' short of 'the butler did it.' No one in that movie at any point acts like anyone in any of those situations would actually act, and if you ever met anyone as brow-furrowedly over-sincere as any of those 'characters,' you'd laugh in their face. It's all cheap bait. And the last five minutes of the movie are completely surreal, what with the sudden epidemic of inhumanity among all the characters.

Just on the pomposity of the scores alone they deserve to be linked.

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