Update at August 2008
While I like Who Do I Gotta Kill?, aka Me and the Mob, I find the comments here reassuring. My memory is of them saying that this is a disjointed feature that has nothing to do with reality. In the sex with panties on scene some even assume that his impression is true, that it is full sex. I do find all that reassuring. There are some things that should not be broadcast.
Except the comments did not say this, it is just my memory of them.
This is a low budget story about a man who has had success as a professional writer of books and articles. In some key ways he has managed to start off okay. I sank at the basic education stage.
Age 30 and he sinks. His abilities for work have become unreal. His girl leaves him and leaves the new, expensive, lingerie on the floor, next to him. He does not even realise that the break up sex missed out on a certain detail. I prefer this to be considered as an unreal feature. I have no objections to no-one else loving this story. I have qualms about the bullock heading off to mostly nice twisty pretzel roles after Speed as for me these early works with her are the down to earth bobcat. Ya-Ya. Best to leave the bobcat behind.
Me and the Mob is way too unreal in some ways. The stories and his informer, if one has not been tied up in such ways then I have to assume that one will get a rather misleading idea of the reality there, one will get an outsider's view. At least this is a sympathetic outsider's view.
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Childhood religion. We are accountable for each of our perceived mistakes. Unless we have not blown it on forgiveness, of course. I say perceived as even foreigners and cows and debarked dogs could get accountability in our town, once upon a time.
SPOILERS
Two If By Sea 1996, aka Stolen Hearts. I find the first few minutes of that, the parts in the car, to be demonstrating what a masterwork is about. The song written and partly sung by an aging Irish man. I probably got the aging wrong as it does not sound it, it just sounds mature and is placed in a way that shows maturity by the director. Haunted, but not blatantly and crudely symbolic. Apart from the painting, of course. And the cat. Bobcat. A couple who are heading for a romance weekend on an island, getting there by cars, then train, then boat. Except they are haunted and making mistakes. Escalating trouble. There is bobcat after Speed. Ya-Ya. Bobcat with a bigger production budget, if with a need to hide skin.
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For me, there is something potentially distasteful about these stories. But I find that these manage to avoid the most blatant mistakes and come up with something worthwhile. True, Me and the Mob should not be revisited all that often, occasionally definitely yes. Early Bullock is okay, to me.
While I like Who Do I Gotta Kill?, aka Me and the Mob, I find the comments here reassuring. My memory is of them saying that this is a disjointed feature that has nothing to do with reality. In the sex with panties on scene some even assume that his impression is true, that it is full sex. I do find all that reassuring. There are some things that should not be broadcast.
Except the comments did not say this, it is just my memory of them.
This is a low budget story about a man who has had success as a professional writer of books and articles. In some key ways he has managed to start off okay. I sank at the basic education stage.
Age 30 and he sinks. His abilities for work have become unreal. His girl leaves him and leaves the new, expensive, lingerie on the floor, next to him. He does not even realise that the break up sex missed out on a certain detail. I prefer this to be considered as an unreal feature. I have no objections to no-one else loving this story. I have qualms about the bullock heading off to mostly nice twisty pretzel roles after Speed as for me these early works with her are the down to earth bobcat. Ya-Ya. Best to leave the bobcat behind.
Me and the Mob is way too unreal in some ways. The stories and his informer, if one has not been tied up in such ways then I have to assume that one will get a rather misleading idea of the reality there, one will get an outsider's view. At least this is a sympathetic outsider's view.
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Childhood religion. We are accountable for each of our perceived mistakes. Unless we have not blown it on forgiveness, of course. I say perceived as even foreigners and cows and debarked dogs could get accountability in our town, once upon a time.
SPOILERS
Two If By Sea 1996, aka Stolen Hearts. I find the first few minutes of that, the parts in the car, to be demonstrating what a masterwork is about. The song written and partly sung by an aging Irish man. I probably got the aging wrong as it does not sound it, it just sounds mature and is placed in a way that shows maturity by the director. Haunted, but not blatantly and crudely symbolic. Apart from the painting, of course. And the cat. Bobcat. A couple who are heading for a romance weekend on an island, getting there by cars, then train, then boat. Except they are haunted and making mistakes. Escalating trouble. There is bobcat after Speed. Ya-Ya. Bobcat with a bigger production budget, if with a need to hide skin.
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For me, there is something potentially distasteful about these stories. But I find that these manage to avoid the most blatant mistakes and come up with something worthwhile. True, Me and the Mob should not be revisited all that often, occasionally definitely yes. Early Bullock is okay, to me.