In a message dated 10/28/2007 4:56:35 P.M. Eastern
Daylight Time,
e_lynskey@yahoo.com writes:
Don't know if Sean Penn's new flick, IN THE WILD, has
been bandied about here, but my wife and I saw it this
morning, and liked it. Eddie Vedder's song tracks were an
extra bonus. I'd read the story in an Alaska magazine back in
the 1990s and the flick pretty much follows the true
story.
Is it Alaskan noir? Beats me. But it's pretty hardcore.
Ed
I loved the film. I had just read the book on the way to
Alaska for Bouchercon and saw the film three days after my
return, so I might be a little biased, but I was with him
every moment. Sean Penn's direction filled out what was
lacking in the book, which was a little thin on emotional
impact by nature of the fact that it was reporting. The film
certainly qualifies as noir if you go for Jack's definition:
screwed. It has a character who works extremely hard to
become a loser, and from the start we know that's the only
way his psychology will take him. Vicki
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