Mystery,logic,life

Rating: 8/10 (28 February 2005)

Mystery surrounds them-their childhood,their fears,their acts,their occupations,their decisions...and yet every single scene derives from the other-this is the most logical movie that I've seen in some time now. Good work Eastwood,nothing left to prove. Nothing erases a past scar,especially if you're a kid;a tragedy has marked their existence forever,it is bound to reflect on their adult consciousness.The truth is kids are most likely to be playing with death than anyone and everybody has been at least once in their childhood only a step away from tragical accidents;explanation simple and logical:kids are kids! All 3 of them present a different kind of psychology.Sean Penn's personage is cruel,desperately seeking for vengeance,counterstrike of what disarms him;a fighter,a criminal,but a good one-self-defense and defense of his family leading to a similar attitude take the charges off him;provocation defines his character;in a word-egoist of a class. Kavin Bacon's great.For once in ages he isn't the bad guy!His character is composed,the most sensible of all;his judgments are reasonable and balanced.He's the happy one(BTW the only one who's happy)at the end. Dave Boyle,the third,actually kills himself or to tell it right-gets himself killed.Weakness,paranoia.He is a sinner BTW... Everyone makes it to redemption in the movie-in a mystic way but that's the way of the river's float-it's life. The footprints of the friends are still there,those they left when they were kids,moments before the tragedy curses them.Sometimes a stroke of hazard is good,sometimes fatal like this one,but always extremely marking and mystic! The best end of a film a hundred percents!Not one to be guessed!