Deserved. Have you seen Jonathan Rosenbaum's review -- which I came to last night after writing my comment to you ? http://www.chireader.com/movies/arch...03/031024.html
You probably have since I think you're from that area. I don't agree with all he says -- he diagnoses all the country's ills through this one movie -- but he rather brilliantly spells out doubts and suspicions I'd only had glimmerings of. Basically, he thinks the critical raves come from a need to banish our guilt for our national violence by seeing it as inevitable and ourselves as victims of blind fate. It's political. And Clint is not innocent of Dirty Harry sympathies. And Rosenbaum says, as I believe, that we need to pay a lot of attention to all this because Mystic River is, in fact, a very fine movie.



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