Monday, January 31, 2011

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living

















 

Don’t know whether I liked this or not. Read the Jim Thompson book some 20 years ago, the movie doesn’t beat that for sure and otherwise too, it was a bit of a boring fucker to be honest. It was shockingly brutal couple of times and, sadly, strangely perhaps, those two times were the highlights. Never liked the lead actor Casey Affleck much, he mumbles, almost whispers, or whines, a lot - should get a voice coach or something.

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