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It did make for a nice dramatic effect at the start when he was out there looking at the horses, and you're baffled about what is going on and why he is doing that. (and in the end, I still don't understand why he was looking like that at those horses). But hey, I'm no screenwriter. |
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03-04-2008, 08:06 PM | #12 | |
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As the redhead noted, a second suicide would have raised suspicions, so they had to come up with something different. Why not, as part of the car bomb idea, leave a clue or two that this was the work of the mob because of unpaid gambling debts? The firm's partners were aware Clooney's character had a gambling problem and that he was in tough financial straits. Presumably the wiretapping evildoers knew this as well (again, a simple script change would provide for this). Still, a very good movie. Last edited by PaloAltoCougar; 03-04-2008 at 08:15 PM. |
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It also showed how U-North's world was unraveling. First they do a nicely prepared fake suicide. Next they do a car bomb execution. Next they're willing to take $10M bribe. I didn't have a problem at all with the inconsistency in the two attempts. A lot changed between the two murders, also. The first one they had hopes they could completely bottle up the memo and everything. By the second one, they were just in a race against time to complete the settlement.
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And the mob angle may well have been intended with the bomb, but it should have been more explicit. Maybe it was but ended up on the cutting room floor. |
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Watched this last night for the first time. Why had a 7-year old kid read McCarthy's The Road? The plot-point being, with the very muted gray pallette for the entire movie, that we are near the dead ash world depicted in The Road? No, not that we're near, but that life is always like The Road; a struggle, dog-eat-dog, cannibalistic journey where father-sons trudge on with nothing but the insane hope that comes from the familial bond. Tilda was the cannibal, in The Road, I suppose, guarding the root cellar of living flesh. Tilda should not have won an Oscar over Cate Blanchett from I'm Not There or Saoirse Ronan from Atonement.
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