Mystic River review

Rating: 10/10 (5 December 2011)

The movie begins with a very innocent scene of three boys playing on the street, (Sean Penn as Jimmy Markum; Kevin Bacon as Sean Devine; Tim Robbins as Dave Boyle). One of the boys is kidnapped, and molested by old men. The entire movie develops around the drama of one of the boys' years later after becoming adults; loose a daughter in an accidental tragedy. The daughter of Jimmy Markum is killed in a very brutal way. This tragedy brings the three childhood friends together. But; Dave is not being mentally stable since he was abused as a child. The theme in this movie is about how bad actions can lead to a chain of bad consequences. This movie was filmed in Boston. The motif of the Mystic River, is to show the dark side of human beings, and what people is capable of in the name of making revenge, or make the one that is consider the bad person pay the high price for everything that happened. Jimmy Markum is a guy that doesn't let anyone to mess around with him, or his family. It also shows how careful human being must be before judging other people, or collecting enough evidence to support their decisions. It emphasizes how a dark past during a childhood can ruin, ones entire life. It shows the innocence of youth. Celeste Boyle, Dave's wife betrayed her husband base on inconclusive motifs that lead to a very dark finale. Mrs. Boyle did not make enough efforts to find out indeed the mental situation of her husband. This movie is a very intense dark drama, and suspense. Along with this situation, there is other drama that linked to the dark past of Jimmy Markum as suspicious to the assassination of his very young daughter Katie. Mr. Markum past could lead to this happen. In this highly dark emotional movie Sean Penn had a good acting by showing his feeling after discovering the action by taking justice with his own hands, was completely wrong, and losing one of his best friends. One can just imagine the pain of a father to see his own daughter killed in such as brutal way. Sometimes, in this movie it even seems to be right, to kill the one that cause the death of our love ones. But, we can not forget if we kill every one that cause us pain, nobody in this universe will be alive. To love, and forgive is first.