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Great writing, well delivered.


Paul Bettany is asked why he still has faith in man. He answers by saying how he has watched men kill each other...yada yada yada and then finishes with this paragraph... "... I see some people that will not give up. Even when they know all hope is lost. Some people, who realize that being lost is so close to being found. I see you Jeep, fifteen years old, your mother leaves you, your father withdraws from the world. And you spend the next 5 years of your young life hoping to find his way home. You love a woman who bears the child of another and you love her with no thought of yourself. Even though you know she'll never love you the way you do her. You, Jeep, you are the reason I still have faith."

Along with the preceding lines and the great delivery from Bettany, with tears running down his cheek, brings a bit of great drama in a less than great movie. Proof that even small moments in film can truly move and inspire.

I think it's a solid piece of writing and film-making. I would have lived enjoyed it even more if the writer had come up with a better name than "Jeep", but that's i different discussion for another day. Lol!

"I think that boy's cheese slid off his cracker" The Green Mile

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