that bit about the RL guy, horrifying, yes. I haven't read enough to make out if it's primarily because the victims were First Nations, prostitutes, and drunks that he's not in jail or if he walked out on some procedural vice or something, I just don't get it. It's like everybody knows he's done it and nobody cares??
And yes, the play doesn't sound like a good idea right now! It throws some light on the movie (did for me, what I've read until now) but is not an easy-read either, with characters such as an armchair with (brown) arms, a dresser fighting with a prostitute in the head... and "deer stories", "ghostly hauntings" and "dead parents"...
I've read that quote about playing a cop like playing a bad guy recently - probably in one of the articles posted here. But the bad guy's taken to another dimension here... I keep re-reading the Bessai quote, I think I'm fascinated by the contrast between what Bessai obviously says as a praise and what it may feel like to be wanted in a movie for such reasons..
Haven't really read your meta post yet. Will probably come back to it once I've read the play - and maybe rewatched the movie.
Oh, and congrats on the polls! Not easy with such a subject!
And yes, the play doesn't sound like a good idea right now! It throws some light on the movie (did for me, what I've read until now) but is not an easy-read either, with characters such as an armchair with (brown) arms, a dresser fighting with a prostitute in the head... and "deer stories", "ghostly hauntings" and "dead parents"...
I've read that quote about playing a cop like playing a bad guy recently - probably in one of the articles posted here. But the bad guy's taken to another dimension here... I keep re-reading the Bessai quote, I think I'm fascinated by the contrast between what Bessai obviously says as a praise and what it may feel like to be wanted in a movie for such reasons..
Haven't really read your meta post yet. Will probably come back to it once I've read the play - and maybe rewatched the movie.
Oh, and congrats on the polls! Not easy with such a subject!
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