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06-14-2005, 08:18 PM
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mystic river
Anyone else see it? Brilliant. So many different levels...
What do *you* think it was about?
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06-14-2005, 08:21 PM
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frick, frack, fruck
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i dunno. . . mating season?
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06-14-2005, 08:22 PM
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where's my salt?
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i don't know about mystic river, but i know what 'whiskey river' is all about
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06-14-2005, 08:22 PM
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^^ i now about that one to
did i tell you i saw merle haggard in concert |
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06-14-2005, 08:24 PM
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where's my salt?
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GET OUT!
i bet that kicked all kinds of ass. probably some decent smoke going 'round too....
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06-14-2005, 08:28 PM
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Quote:
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06-14-2005, 08:43 PM
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I thought at first, maybe, I dunno, God... sitting there watching, not really doing anything... I don't think those men were really cops. They weren't wearing uniforms, and they weren't in a police car - they were just two men in a black car with something obscure in the back seat, something that filled the young boys with dread. I felt a real shock of fear go through me when I looked into that dark back seat. Damn good directing.
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06-14-2005, 08:27 PM
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My last acting teacher saw it loooong before I did, and said it made her think of Greek tragedy. So I was kind of prepped to see symbolism, people as metaphors for roles... I was thinking, the scary guy in the beginning, he was Fate, or Chaos, or maybe both. I was trying to see into the car, and couldn't see anything... I think maybe the three boys and the three men were symbols for things too... The Tim Robbins character, he was Victim. He evaded his role for awhile, but in the end, he couldn't escape it. The other two, Cop and Criminal. That's who they grew up to be. Fate made it so. I wonder who the priest guy was supposed to be.
The real world doesn't have such cut-and-dried roles...
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