Wow, just watched Mystic River!!

[mommyoftwo]

It was amazing but deeply disturbing. The acting and directing are just brilliant. I just cant' believe how good it was.
Did anyone else see it yet?

[Cranberry]

Yes, I saw it. It was really great. Tim Robbins and Sean Penn deserved their Oscars! I also read the book and thought it was excellent (actually better than the movie, which is usually the case since they can't include everything from a book in a 2 hour movie). I've read most of Dennis Lehane's books. He has a detective series with a man & woman team solving crimes in Boston. The books are more violent than I would like but still I enjoy them and keep reading...

[China white]

Yes ~ I watched it recently, and also thought it was excellent. Great acting by Sean Penn

[Marlena]

The acting was fabulous, of course. But I came away perplexed about numerous critics' claims that the film represented a Eastwood's repudiation of the whole "vigilante" thing as represented by Dirty Harry and the like. While the error of Jimmy's murder of Dave came as a blow to both Jimmy and Sean, when revealed as a mistake, it didn't cripple them. Rather, Jimmy's wife consoled Jimmy by telling him that he did what he, as a "king," had to do. And Sean wasn't going to add to the tragedy by bringing his old friend to justice. The person who was shattered, OTOH, was Dave's wife, Celeste. She committed the fatal sin of not being loyal to her husband, by voicing her deep fear that he'd killed Jimmy's daughter. Ultimately, the message wasn't so much that vigilantism is wrong, but rather that loyalties to family (and friends) ought never to be breached, for any reason.