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Film: Wind River
Quite good, although I didn't love the abrupt cut to a flashback to explain everything. I enjoyed the first half of the film better than the second half. Mystery stories so rarely pay off in a meaningful way.
Book: The Man From the Train
Super interesting historical true crime book from Bill James (the baseball writer) about an axe murderer who terrorized small towns near train stations in the early 1900s. Most fascinating parts were the town people's reactions to the crimes - especially because the whole idea of serial killing hadn't hit the public consciousness. It seemed that many of them intuitively understood what was happening, yet all the structural forces at the time sort of pushed the people toward blaming crazy people or other local folks with grudges, etc. Bill James comes away thinking at least 4 people were mistakenly executed for these murders, which is quite a shocking thing unto itself.
Film: Bridesmaids rewatch
Enjoyable.
1 comment:
Spot on assessment of Wind River. I remember the set-up/finding the body in the snow, and the abrupt flashback to the work barracks. Can't recall anything of the final sequence, what happens to our main characters.
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