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The basic plot is of a detective (Nicholson) about to
retire who promises the mother of a murdered 8 year girl that he
will catch her killer.
An initial suspect is a Native American
who has a "mental handicap" . He kills himself with cop's
gun. But Jack doesn't believe he is the killer (without giving
any reasonable explanation) .
The film dwells too long on faces
trying to represent their though processes. And the script
tries too hard to inject meaningfulness. With kindness
you can call the pace leisurely. The French have a knack of
slowly pacing a film without losing one's interest but American
directors generally struggle to keep one involved. There are
'nice' touches which you would expect from Penn (like Americans with
bad teeth) but the obsession evoked in the novel has somehow drifted
away and Nicholson's performance is partly responsible for
that.
The mother of the killer (putative) is in an electric
wheelchair.
From the novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
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