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doro99
Reviews
The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
don't like the gun
I agree that there was excessive profanity, but that wouldn't bother me so much. What I don't like is that she waved a gun at her husband and everybody else, and yet he didn't leave her. Many people like her are under pressure and don't wave a loaded gun around. I think we're supposed to sympathize with her for this, but I don't. She gets arrested for trying to jump the turnstile and arguing with a cop, but not for waving the gun. If your spouse waves a gun at you, even if she doesn't fire it, you should get out now, because the next time she may fire it. People have to try to deal with their anger in other ways. What her husband said right before she got angry and said he was a liar, I repeated it several times and still don't understand what he said that got her so mad.
The Woodsman (2004)
Good movie, but a little weird.
Kevin Bacon's acting helped me to feel some sympathy for his character, who really tried to be "normal", even though I don't sympathize with his actions. But some things I find weird. He ran into 2 different women who had the hots for him while knowing that he did time. Eve's character asked, what did he do? robbery? theft? assault? She seemed to be interested in him if he did these things. But when she found out he molested young girls, she used the internet to warn everyone, saying they "had a right to know", and she didn't like him very much after that. Kyra Sedgwick's character continued to like him even after she found out he molested young girls, and this made him resentful of her, saying "you get off on that stuff". (This indicates that he understands that molesting young girls was wrong and is sincerely trying to change). Another thing that was weird was the second of the two scenes with Hannah Pilkes, the 14-year-old girl. In the first scene, she talked with him for a minute and then left, apparently realizing that she shouldn't be hanging around with a stranger. But, in the second scene with her, toward the end, Walter suddenly asks "Do you want to sit on my lap?", and she doesn't immediately leave. She says "no thank you" at first, but then she says "I'll sit on your lap if you want me to". What 14-year-old girl is going to say that? When he declines her offer, before she leaves, she even hugs him. I don't get that. Mos Def's performance as Sgt. Lucas was good. He was a character I loved to hate. He busts into Walter's house whenever he wants and verbally abuses him. Sgt. Lucas has made up his mind that Walter is a child molester and won't change, and he's looking for an excuse to arrest him again. But then, when Walter beats up that other child molester, Sgt. Lucas thinks he's a cool guy and doesn't want to arrest him anymore.