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Maxwell Lord posted:I liked how Ernest is played and written as kinda stupid. Not to the extent that it exonerates him at all, but you can tell he needs things explained to him slowly. Also Leo's in his late 40s playing a guy in his 20s, and DeNiro's in his 80s playing a guy in his 40s, and that's never off-putting or awkward any time they're on screen. Loved it, cinematography was gorgeous, see it on a very big screen.
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There's a part in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin that I think about a lot (I don't have the book in my house, so I'm about to butcher it). A young woman gets told by a close member of her family that, despite her father being distracted and distant, he loves her deep down. As a child, she thinks that that's a good thing. When she gets older, she realizes that it isn't, not really. Loving someone deep down means, by definition, there's quite a bit buried on top. If you want that love, you're going to have to dig through it in order to find it. And what would it look like, once you found it? Not something shining and golden. Something tarnished and rusted and decayed from having been interred in the earth. Not a treasure to be cherished, but a talisman. A burden to be borne. That's the way I think Ernest loved Mollie. The kind of love where he was complicit in the murder of her entire family and poisoned her in secret for years, but also took a stubborn pride in the fact that he saw her as a wife as opposed to a mark.
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