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In Reply to: Re: Another pointless movie about a serial killer with posted by jamesgarvin on March 2, 2005 at 16:08:27:
formulas exist: since you cannot sit for a 72-hour spectacle, the director is forced to present a "finished" product in the space of a few hours.
Anyhow, you felt the character was worth knowing about, I didn't. He destroyed a relationship and his life for what? Penn is saying that it was for NOTHING. In other words, Nicholson's entire effort was absurd, pointless. He failed. The murderer "won."
Sorry, but that happens in "real life" enough. We want to see a guy triumph over adversity. You know, the old Oscar Wilde saying, "We're all lying in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars."
Penn is looking at the shit. Just cause it's depressing, nihilistic, and negative doesn't make it "art," avant-garde, or worthwhile.
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Hardly. The murderer was killed in an auto accident.
crime(s)(unless you think Penn was suggesting divine punishment).
Besides, I don't remember exactly but was it unavoidable that this was the murderer...or was it just a "maybe?"
It is clear that it is him and that it is his car. That's the tragedy, that Nicholson was right and wasn't able to prove it (nor would he have been able to even if the mother didn't arrive to take the girl away). So after two failed marriages he throws away the love and family he had finally arrived at because of his obsession. As Clint Eastwood says in "The Bridges of Madison County", "Obsessions don't have reasons, that's why they're obsessions".
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