On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Duane Spurlock wrote:
> I first tried Petievitch after seeing William
Friedkin's film of TO LIVE AND
> DIE IN L.A., during which WIllem Dafoe's portrayal
of Rick Masters really
> grabbed me.
I've never liked the film. Or actually, I don't know what to
think of it. It's visually stunning and fast-moving, but
then, as always in Friedkin's films, the emotions and the
intellectual concerns leave me cold. The movie is
contradictory at least and it never decides whether the
William Petersen character is a hero or not. To me he is just
a boring macho with a mission, but the movie never seems to
notice that there could (and probably should, too) be
criticism pointed toward him. He's criticized at first, but
then he gets away as a hero in the
(unintentionally funny) ending.
Don't ask me where these points come. It's been years since I
saw the movie, but these were my thoughts at the time.
As for Petievich, I haven't read him. I intend to. The movie
"Boiling Point" by James B. Harris, from "Money Men", is
pretty good.
Juri
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