My response to Mystic River

Rating: Null/10 (8 September 2004)

I watched Mystic river last night and as a result I became thoroughly depressed. I totally respect the quality of the film in all aspects of the cinematography, it really is outstanding. But, for heavens sake why make such a depressing film Mr Eastwood. The spaghetti westerns at least gave you something, but this film just takes away. It's Franz Kafka style viewing, leaving a sense of hopelessness which just isn't helpful. I am still a big Eastwood fan, but after all those years learning his trade, why do such a thorough job of depressing, rather than uplifting. Some may describe this response as naive. Like," ... well we need to be shown how it really is... ". I don't think we need that any more, if we ever did ?