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Mystic River

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JabirdV
Oct 08 2003
09:50 am

What a great film. Eastwood definitely captured raw human emotion on film. The performances were spectacular!

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eddie
Dec 14 2003
08:16 pm

i concur.

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bridget
Dec 14 2003
09:14 pm

Did anyone else have a problem with the ending? I felt like there seemed to be a kind of identity crisis at the end, where the movie wasn’t sure what it was trying to be.

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Andrew
Dec 15 2003
06:26 am

The end was a bit ambiguous. I definitely think that the ending, for me, was enriched by reading the book first. There was a lot going on emotionally with Jimmy and his wife that was undoubtedly very hard to capture on film.

Personally, I loved the ending (but then, I like endings that don’t really tie up all the loose ends). Kevin Bacon making a gun of his fingers and pointing directly at Sean Penn—it gave me chills.

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enok
Dec 22 2003
06:58 am

i kept thinking about whether or not this reality was real. i expected some sort of weird flashback thing to make me think that they were all still captured imagining what their lives would be like.

i did like the ending though. very interesting, almost surreal.

i didn’t understand though, how sean’s (kevin bacon) wife fit into it all, she seemed to be just inserted at the end…