A Portrait of a American Family

Rating: Null/10 (17 April 2008)

In a the penultimate scene of the history, Annabeth Markum (Laura Linney) Jimmy's wife Markum (they are Penn) which Lady Macbetch of a neighborhood of Boston, accomplice and who motivate to murder one of their best friends, Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins) believing to charge vengeance for their daughter's death. Bankrupt and tragic vengeance, since at the end he/she is proved that he/she was not the murderer, but some boys smaller than age of the neighborhood. In this final scene she tells to the hearing to "Your you are the King and the King makes what has to make to defend his castle." What has to make to coast of making a mistake, to defend the dream of their daughters, at the hour that is, even yes it was the 3 a.m. In this alone image of the daily tragedy of Clint Eastwood, I see colored to United States, or maybe to a fragment of the American idiosyncrasy, a family portrait that discover the cultural background of United States today in day. It doesn't care yes it is necessary to propitiate the ruin of Baghdad and Iraq occupying it in the "enemies' of the democracy search and the freedom" looking for chemical or nuclear weapons that existed never, or making the same thing in Afghanistan, without finding Osama Bin Laden for any side. It doesn't care yes we kill mistakenly one of our childhood friends, to charge the blood of one of our children, it doesn't care, because we are the kings and we have to take this type of decisions to defend our tranquility or our honor, serious rather.
As well as there are skeletons in the closets, there are also other hidden ones in the rivers of the memory, as that of Dave Boyle, (Tim Robbins) the friend that is drowned mistakenly in the Mistic River. This drowned man, once violated by policemen in their childhood, it is the it kills of the indifference, from their first years until their death. It is the it kills of that of that that nobody charge is taken in the society. It kills her it finishes stigmatized to the point of even becoming something dispensable or unnecessary, as much as to obviate their crime for another of their friends, the Detective of Homicides, be I Became (Kevin Bacon) and to leave it hidden in the river.
In the international politics the same one happens to Iraq or with Afghanistan. The king in turn, (be Penn) he/she is the American Government. The dead of a river of a district of Boston turn out to be the faithful portrait of the American position, in the world. Seen this way, not alone they cook the beans in the White House, it is a feature of an entire society and a lifestyle.