Story Lover

Another TPL DVD and was somewhat decent. I like Edward Norton a lot, but this one wasn’t that impressive. I found it really sad if anything. Sandy commits suicide because his conscience catches up with him. Jimmy gets beaten to death in retribution for all the horrible things he’s done. Every bad thing caught up with these guys eventually, which I’d like to think is how the world works. How karma works. But realistically, I’m sure most people get away with the horrible, hideous things they’ve done. Horrific as it is to think or imagine.

And inside every one of us is the pure person we once were, the one who looks forward at who we’ve become and wonders how it all evolved. The one who perhaps finds peace right before they get beaten to death. I think that was the most powerful part of the movie, how Jimmy (Colin Farrell) tells Ray to tell his wife that he loves her and resolves that he’s just going to get beaten to death. And it almost seems alright or right to him.