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Not just a fantastic surprise, but really the heart of the film. Her innocent, naive goodness made the movie. Enjoyed this thought I saw in another site's comment section, speaking about her and about the opening:quote:These kids are left to clean up the messes left by the adults and to remind them of and reinject the decency that they've lost, or had beaten out of them by life, or in some cases maybe never had. That opening scene was a perfect microcosm of the entire film. The fact that the child seeks the perfect fantasy version of a porn star in the magazine, is presented with the inverted horrible real life tragedy of that same porn star's death, and takes off his shirt to cover her up to give her a modicum of dignity in death. Blows me away. Feels like that scene wouldn't have been in a lesser filmmaker's version of this movie and it's absolutely essential.
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MisterBibs posted:I'm surprised that Russel Crowe killing that dude and lying to Holly about it never came back to bite him in the rear end. I mean, I can't think of a reason how it could, but I was still expecting it. I get where you're coming from but to me it seemed like that wasn't meant to come back and bite him in the rear end, but was just showing the type of person he was - the status quo at the beginning of his character arc. In order to grow and change he needed to be reminded of the decency that he'd lost when confronted with the same situation again, having been convinced by Holly's kindness and decency along the way.
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May 23, 2016 04:22
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Coca Koala posted:I'm a sucker for hardboiled detective stories in general... Correct.
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May 23, 2016 17:41
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My only problem with Gosling's otherwise wonderful performance is his drunk acting. Some actors can nail it, some can't. He did not.
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May 23, 2016 21:12
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InfiniteZero posted:For a movie that tried so hard to establish itself as being set in 1977 specifically, you'd think somebody would have tipped them off that the London Calling album cover poster wouldn't have existed for almost 2 years after then. The movie played pretty fast and loose with historical accuracy. Earth Wind and Fire definitely hadn't written the songs at the party by that point, and I heard someone mention a few more on another site. I don't mind those sort of inaccuracies as long as it's just to make a cooler film.
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May 25, 2016 22:18
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I mean, the film starred Russel Crowe and Kim Basinger. It was definitely an LA Confidential nod. But so is a lot of the film, if you think about it too much.
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May 30, 2016 04:44
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