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uublog posted:I want to compare this to Silver Linings Playbook for some reason (because that's what I saw last Christmas) and my first thought is that this is a bigger cast working even better together. There are a few movies I'd make a comparison to that all focus on cons and stings like Duplicity, Argo, and, well, The Sting. Unlike crime thrillers, they don't tend to have half the cast killed by the end of their running time, as that's the sort of resolution the con artists (and by extension, the script-writers) are trying to avoid. When Silver Linings Playbook came out, it took people around me by surprise, with a lot of "I know it's a Rom-Com, but it's really good," as if no one expected a movie focused on a relationship to really hit people emotionally. As aforementioned, that seems to be David O. Russel's trademark for now, to pull characters out of actors. That, and the Sam Raimi-esque zoom-in close-up he uses to unbuckle the audience in emotional scenes.
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