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...uncommon for someone who has been attacked in that way to feel a sense of complete depersonalization and diminishment, to feel like an object. The rage--his smashing equipment--pretty clearly and symbolically reflects that Manzie felt used in some way." "We are afraid of Sam," his father Nick had said in pleading with a judge to have his son committed. The judge refused, calling Sam "a fine young...
...mercy--make that the whim--of "an ignorant, inbred, tumbleweed hick" car mechanic (good ole, evil ole Billy Bob Thornton); a slut-siren (Jennifer Lopez, reeking lubricity) who invites Bobby home and purrs, "I'm tired a hangin' drapes--now what shall we do?"; and her grizzled husband (Nick Nolte in the goat-patriarch mode perfected by John Huston), who has a business proposition for Bobby: Kill my wife, please...
That bashed artifact bounces repeatedly in the rest of Underworld, eventually coming to rest in the possession of Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm in Phoenix, Ariz., who pays $34,500 to a New Jersey memorabilia dealer named Marvin Lundy for the Thomson souvenir. Why buy something that even the seller cannot authoritatively trace back to Bobby Thomson's bat? (DeLillo's readers know about Cotter Martin and can make the connection, but his characters can't.) Why, especially, since Nick was a teenager in the Bronx and a desperate Dodgers fan when the home...
...Nick Martucci...
...cagey, that for a while the film recalls smarter excursions into heroic paranoia (The Parallax View, Total Recall). But, Fincher would say, it's your choice whether to be tantalized or exasperated. If the movie works, it's because you believe, for a couple of hours, that you are Nick. You are not playing the game; The Game is playing...