That is a good review. It's true what he says, the fact of the extreme oddity of the story somehow passed me by and I just didn't "get" it. Too many John Woo pigeons? Too many gangster spoofs? So many movies look exactly like one another...Jarmusch didn't give us many visual clues that he was hitting the tropes on purpose. And I'm assuming the invisibilty of that self-conscious stance is intentional. Which is interesting in and of itself, but still left me feeling bored during the film.
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- sally mckay 12-29-2003 7:02 pm