movies never seen, books not yet read.
"Tommy Lee Jones wrote his Harvard thesis on Catholic writer Flannery
O'Connor. At the time it no doubt seemed like a subject with little
relevance to the craft of filmmaking, but, in
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,
it serves him remarkably well. Jones himself has admitted that the
spirit of O'Connor looms heavy on his directorial debut...He clearly views the world through a pair of O'Connor
shaded glasses—he views humanity as twisted and ridiculously monstrous
creatures that seem hell-bent on their own destruction. Maybe he's being
too cynical, or maybe he's read the first chapter of Romans. Either
way, Jones doesn't let his fiendish, freakish cast of characters turn
his movie into a downer—like O'Connor, he mines the darkness and finds
in it a gleaming sense of the absurd. Is it dark? Heck yeah. But it's
also sharply funny, even when it cuts so close to the bone it makes us
feel more than a little uncomfortable."
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