why people do movies like those???

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2011)

I agree with a commentary from Japan: this movie is unacceptable, because it tells of a murderer without calling him really what he is, I repeat: a murderer. Robbins did a great work (he is the best of the whole cast) for a potential great character, but at the end he is only a murdered loser, not more, sic!!! The flick in some points is not bad, meanwhile good, bad the end simplify all in so a dreadful way, that eventually it isn't good. Linney's character should have been extensively enlarged, whereas she is only a "deus ex machina". If you resist this moral adjustment (including also the detective) , you can maybe think upon how it is possible that criminals live among us loving their families etc. and upon the devastating consequences of sexual violence (children and women!), but the lot of uncritical praises this movie had earned is a sign of the moral level of our society. In the novel the detective promise to Celeste to pursue the murderer. In the movie this is said in so an ambiguous manner that eventually it is canceled. And this is unforgivable Mr. Eastwood! For this reason, also the outrageous indifference towards the victims will shock you, but only an instant, then you will forget. Eastwood nearly always deals with important topics, that are not often chosen from directors, and he knows his job as filmmaker, but this is a reason more, not to do flick lick this!!!