I think that's what made the film interesting, that it wasn't
cut and dry, that the characters weren't easily labeled as
"good" or "bad" buit operated in the grey area. I remember
Friedkin saying something like "the hero can do bad things
but the audience is still on his side" Of course, when I saw
it and the "good guy" got killed, everyone cheered.
Brad
> << 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.
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