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...Pamela Mackey, his attorney, who successfully defended another sports star, Colorado Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy, on a charge of domestic violence. She is likely to take a gentle approach in undermining the accuser's testimony. "I don't think you need to tear apart the victim," says Phoenix attorney Darrow Soll, who got charges dropped against Mike Tyson in two recent rape cases. "What you can do is say, 'Let's talk about the fact that a 19-year-old girl had sex with a basketball player who was married, and maybe her boss found out. What...
Deponent herewith stipulates that he will not challenge the Wachowski brothers' claim to have read Hesse, Homer, the Gnostic Bible and the comic books of Geof Darrow. Philosophes as diverse as Cornel West and Keanu Reeves have testified to the range of the Wachowskis' erudition and their devotion to high-minded subtextual references in their action movies. Witness is also prepared to admit that Neo, the character Reeves plays in The Matrix Reloaded, may very well be a Christ figure, devoting himself to the redemption of a humanity so far fallen that what remains of it lives scuzzily in caves...
...hard to imagine that Darrow, the head of emergency services at Chicago Memorial Hospital, and Emily, a pediatric oncologist there, ever had the time or the extra emotional wherewithal to maintain a strong relationship. Nevertheless, he is devastated by his loss, or at least Costner trys to act devastated. He becomes a loose cannon on the job and is quickly asked to take time off by his friends and medical colleagues. He appears delusional to them, as he becomes deeply affected by frequent encounters with dragonflies—be it with a dragonfly paperweight with a life...
These are the first in a series of mystical events that lead Darrow to believe his wife is trying to communicate with him. We’re never sure if his encounters are simply in his own mind. But even then, Dragonfly leaves us wondering about the difference between reality and the reality the mind creates. In keeping with his promise to look after Emily’s patients while she is in Venezuela, Darrow makes frequent visits to the pediatric oncology ward. Mysteriously enough, two of the children in the ward have near-death experiences under his care...
Granted, any dialogue in which Costner is trying to carry half the burden is going to be excruciating, but several exchanges in the film leave one wondering where to place the blame—on the stilted script or the poor acting. At one point, Darrow walks up to a table of friends at a bar, who toast his recently deceased wife (“Here’s to Emily!”) just like most people would toast a good night at the bowling alley or the purchase of a new car. It is a wonder that...