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Samuel L. Jackson fares predictably well, especially when he becomes a partner in strategy about his own case. The ambiguity over himself as a justified vigilante and as a defendant lying about his sanity to escape guilt raises several ticklesome issues...
Renton's withdrawal provides probably the lowest point in the film. Renton doesn't so much hallucinate as dream a carefully engineered catalog of guilt and fashionably crazy images: the ceiling-crawling dead baby (an unpardonable motor mockup) of an addict friend, check; a game show about HIV (a risk with syringes, we mustn't forget), check; and a voracious bed that swallows him up, check. To repeat--and oh, but the movie does--a techno beat pounds on throughout the scene, making Renton's screaming seem that of a hard rock star rather than an addict in withdrawal...
...hospital just three weeks before her death. The school knew of Alicia's problems. Denise Marovich-Sampson, an English teacher who coordinates the "impact" counseling program, which consists mostly of voluntary discussion groups, says Alicia was referred to her, but refused to attend impact sessions. "I have this guilt thing, thinking, Did I do enough? But yeah, I did," says Marovich-Sampson. "If a child is not willing to get help, I can't drag her out of class kicking and screaming...
That is the best part of summer reading. No rationing of pages; no guilt about being unproductive; simply the pleasure of immersing oneself in whatever strikes one's fancy, for as long as one cares...
...Edmund and taking out his anxieties on his elder son, the failed actor Jamie (Bill Camp). Jamie, already a depressed and cynical alcoholic, is now devastated by his mother's relapse and brother's illness, blaming his father's stubborn cheapness for both. As the day wears on, accusations, guilt and motivation for inexplicable past acts are revealed one by one, until a tragic pattern emerges, which the characters seem hopeless to escape...