In a message dated 5/27/08 1:28:50 PM,
dave@hardluckstories.com writes:
> I caught this the other night on DVD and it could be
the best movie
> I've seen in years, and while not a crime move, it
certainly has a
> noirish inevitibility about it, as well as other
noirish aspects. Also
> an amazing performance by Daniel Day-Lewis--his
winning best actor
> oscar was well deserved.
>
> Anyone read the Upton Sinclair novel this eas based
on, and if so, how
> closely does the movie follow it?
>
a very long depiction of an unsavory charactor in a difficult
era without much actual story. Lewis is fabulous, of course.
but in the service of..?
John Lau
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