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...Night. New Yorker James Gray makes grimy melodramas (Little Odessa, The Yards) about working-class guys from the outer boroughs who are forced to face moral dilemmas or brutally erase them. The main characters in this new one are a cop father (Robert Duvall) and his two sons, one a cop (Mark Wahlberg), the other (Joaquin Phoenix) the manager of a Brighton Beach nightclub crawling with Russian mobsters. The police are portrayed as stalwart but mostly dewy do-gooders, so they fade in screen appeal next to the Russky tough guys - nothing like a monster mobster with a guttural accent...
...idea," Aureliano says. "I didn't agree, but there was nothing I could do." As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unfolded, Jesse grew determined to get involved as he mulled his future and the state of the world from his hometown of Aurora, Ill. He told his father that someone had to do something to stop al-Qaeda. Jesse was a gifted saxophone player, but he didn't want to spend his life playing in nightclubs...
...improvisation," says Steve Ode, who played trombone alongside Jesse in jazz band through middle school and high school. "When it came to playing anything solo, the band directors turned to Jesse." But Jesse always seemed in search of a larger purpose. When he was about 12, he asked his father to take him to a nondenominational Bible-study group. Jesse had found it on his own and wanted to go because he was curious about religion. For two years father and son went together to Bible discussions, where Jesse was easily the youngest person. Jesse's initial curiosity grew into...
...high school in 1998, Jesse put jazz aside and pursued computer engineering in community-college classes in Aurora, where he also worked at an insurance company. But he abandoned the college path in 2005 to enlist in the Marines. The decision took his family by surprise. Jesse told his father only after he had arrived in California for training. Soon after, Jesse left for Iraq, where word from him came rarely...
Jesse went home over Christmas in 2006, spending two weeks of leave in Aurora. About five weeks after returning to duty in Anbar province, Jesse sent his father a short message saying he was O.K. Aureliano never communicated with his son again. At 10 a.m. on April 16, four Marines arrived at his house. When Aureliano asked if they were there about his son, the Marines didn't speak, but after a moment, they explained: Jesse had died in Iraq about seven hours earlier, killed by hostile fire...