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...opening scenes of the film, the three main characters??then 10 years old—are approached by a man claiming to be a police officer after they write their names in wet cement. The man, whose badge is fake and who is not wearing a uniform, insists on taking Dave Boyle (later played by Robbins) to his mother, shoving him in the back seat of his car. He then sexually molests the boy for four days, setting up the rest of the film...
Lehane said the underlying confusion of appearance and reality that plays out in the climax of Mystic River—which leads to no definitive “good” or “evil” characters??is also reflected in his political outlook...
Political campaigns attract a strange cast of characters??a mélange of college students, the unemployed and trust fund babies. Some are locals who only stick around for a few days; others are peripatetics who roam from one end of the country to the other, groupies who follow candidates from one swing state to the next...
...Orange Crushed, she indulges in digressions on the relative merits of the Gini coefficient as a measure of inequality and the application of the Herfindahl index to emerging Eastern European economies. At some point, readers will likely need to consult their Ec 10 notes to keep pace with the characters?? academic repartee...
...with far more powerful scenes than Vol. 1: when a tied-up Beatrix must wrap her lips around a flashlight, the degrading image is worth more than any moment in the first volume. Here Tarantino employs the same technique as in Reservoir Dogs, where he subtly focused on his characters?? ears before slicing one off in the end. It’s a cruel trick, but a crafty one—and proof that Tarantino plays more than lip service to the art of film...