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Mystic River's story is told in Eastwood's straight-shootin' fashion, while 21 Grams, written by Guillermo Arriaga, jumps like an antsy first-grader from one plot strand to the next. Neither film, despite what you might have heard, is within shouting distance of a masterpiece. Gonzalez Inarritu's English-language debut lacks the zigzagging drive of his Mexican hit Amores Perros and taxes credulity with its pileup of fatal coincidences. Mystic River has a case of wandering accents (sometimes South Boston, sometimes West Hollywood) and plods toward its conclusion more like a tired cop than a cunning detective...
...intricately structured screenplay by novelist Guillermo Arriaga keeps reverting, ever more intimately and horrifically, to that crash, not merely showing it as the major figures in three intertwined stories experience it but also letting us see their lives prior to and after the disaster that radically reshapes their fates. Inarritu, 37, who has made hundreds of TV commercials in Mexico City, consciously intends his movie to be a portrait of his "dangerous, beautiful" hometown. The film is muy espanol, a portrait that blends harsh realism with a curious tenderness. It is also muy Bunuel, but without his conscious surrealism...
Elderly residents are sometimes the target of home-repair scams. "These people are cash poor but real estate rich," says Frederick Arriaga, a lawyer with Legal Aid in New York. Their houses, however, may be old and in need of repair. One three-story row house in Brooklyn, N.Y., was bought for $25,000 in 1968 by Warren Singleton, a safety officer at a public school, and his wife Minnie, a health-care assistant. They hoped it would yield enough rental income to support their retirement. After bad tenants just about wrecked the two top floors, Minnie responded...
...small family for a day," complains Jose Romero Arana at Managua's sprawling outdoor Eastern Market. "What are we supposed to eat for the rest of the month?" Even some of the revolution's early gains in health care are vanishing. "Medicine is supposed to be free," says Maria Arriaga Castilla, nursing a baby in her arms near the town of Ocotal. "But you have to wait so long to see a doctor, and the right drugs aren't always to be found...
...Courage. Until last March, an avowed Communist, Eli de Gotari, 41, was rector of the university. In an act of courage, Michoacan's anti-Communist Governor, Agustin Arriaga Rivera, dismissed De Gotari, after 40 days of student riots that ended only when a student was killed and the federal government sent troops to surround the school and jets to buzz the city. Last month an audit of the university's books showed that during his 17 months in office, De Gotari had doled out $51,600 in university funds to anti-U.S. or pro-Communist organizations...