American Hustle

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > American Hustle

echoplex: Mar 5, 2008; Stainless Style

Colonel Whitey posted:

I thought that was part of why it didn't work very well.

Exactly how I felt. Carmine's ending was at odds with the rest of the tone of the film, which I found a bit troubling.

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echoplex: Mar 5, 2008; Stainless Style

Surlaw posted:

Renner definitely deserves it over Cooper.

How would you describe the rest of the tone of the film? It was sad that the most well intentioned person in the film is the one who gets the worst end, but that felt totally appropriate to me in a film centered around a group of people joyfully ruining lives.

To me it feels like the film moves towards an "alls well that ends well" ending, and overall I'd have said the tone was lighter than it was darker purely for the comedy side of things. To me it doesn't really fit - it skews bleak in a way that is divorced from the rest of the film perhaps?

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