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perfectly written and directed movie


I saw this when I was 18 and couldn't appreciate the nuances in this movie. Seeing it now again at 38 and it's perfectly written and directed. There are so many things unsaid in this that if you understood life, you would see it all. For example, when the girl arrives at the police station to talk to the cop, one of the other officer says hi to him. What I saw now that I didn't see back then was that he was embarrassed by this because he's using his position to court a desperate woman. When they had dinner together, he knows she's an ex alcoholic but kind of eggs her into drinking so he can get her drunk and fuck her. She dazes off into some fantasy about getting her house back when he tells her a story about how he'll break the law to help a female victim. So she tries to seduce him to use him. In the car, they falsely believe the colonel and his family are financial vultures and so they believe they have moral high ground to act as they do. Also I suspect her reason for her husband leaving was a lie too since she was an alcoholic. So it couldn't have been she wanted children and he didn't. That's too blameless on her side. Also the director cast Jennifer Connelly and dressed her down to hide her huge tits just to reveal them at just the right moments to make her so alluring and erotic. It explains why the cop went crazy for her.

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