In the film's key sequence, Butch and Phillip are given shelter for the night by a friendly black farmer (George Haynes).

We don't see either killing Eastwood stays away from the cliche of a gun firing, a body falling, and it's not until late in the film that someone is shot onscreen, and then in very particular circumstances.īut there is violence in the movie. One body is found in an auto trunk, the other in a cornfield. There are some murders in the film, all of them off-camera. But as the man and boy drive through the dusty 1963 Texas landscape, it's more like they're going in circles, while the man looks hard at the boy and tries to see what it means to be a boy, what is the right way and the wrong way to talk to one. Butch talks vaguely about going to Alaska. His father was absent, his mother was a prostitute, the men in her life didn't like him much. Butch, we learn, was treated badly as a boy. Butch isn't a terrifically nice guy, and Phillip isn't a cute movie kid who makes and then loses a friend. It doesn't fall into any of the conventional movie patterns. You can look very hard, but you won't be able to guess where this relationship is going. The heart of the movie is the relationship that develops between the outlaw and the kid. Both Eastwood and Dern think, for different reasons, it isn't that simple.Īnd it's not. The general view is that Haynes is a desperate kidnapper. In pursuit is Red Garnett, riding in a newfangled Airglide trailer that's a 'mobile command headquarters.' Garnett is saddled with a talky criminologist ( Laura Dern) and various other types, including a sinister federal agent who is an expert marksman.

Lowther), 9 or 10 years old.īefore long the other con is gone from the scene and the man and the boy are cutting across the back roads of Texas. Soon they're on the road with a hostage, Phillip (T.J. Escaping from prison, Haynes and another convict break in on a mother and her children at dawn. The Eastwood character, Red Garnett, had something to do with that and has never felt quite right about it. 'A Perfect World' is a film any director alive might be proud to sign.Ĭostner's character, Butch Haynes, is a young man who drifted into trouble and was sentenced unfairly, to get him out of the way. Eastwood has directed 17 films, but his direction is sometimes taken less seriously because he's a movie star. And the direction by Clint Eastwood finds strange, quiet moments of perfect truth in the story.īoth Costner and Eastwood are fresh from triumphs at the Academy Awards, but in neither ' Dances with Wolves' nor ' Unforgiven' will you find the subtlety and the sadness they discover here. But the screenplay by John Lee Hancock goes deep. The setup is such familiar material that you think the story is going to be flat and fast. While i'm not so sure at first, the movie kept getting even more fun, entertaining, and definitely better, also surprisingly deal with a legit serious stuff, Barbie is a weirdly fun movie that fills with this very interesting concept, definitely the first time that's ever done, Greta Gerwig has created this whole new style of filmmaking specifically for Barbie, from the intentionally weird yet creative editing, some awkward and cringe scene, i found the comedy so funny instead of cringe, Barbie is one of the most original movie of the year and also one of the most original movie i've seen in a while, we all know Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling is gonna carry the movie and they are, but Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, and the whole rest of the cast were also great and entertaining, the soundtrack was just great, except Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice 'Barbie World' song that are just absolutely terrible, but Billie Eilish 'What Was I Made For?' tune that kept haunting in the background until it finally get the perfect scene to played it was really the best thing because that song was just beautiful and emotional, anyway, Barbie is a lot of fun, while there is still some noticeable flawed, most of them i found it funny, entertaining, colourful, creative, and fun, pure fun, it's something that i probably will love it even more the second time i see it, but as of right now, Barbie was a good time, definitely recommended and with this movie somehow it's actually possible to have a live-action Barbie movie, all you need to have is a good writer, good director, and good cast, and they delivers mostly.This is a movie that surprises you.

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