Movie: Stone

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Movie: Stone

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Depressing movie, exhausting to watch. It tries to be a meditation on forgiveness & redemption.

De Niro is a prison parole officer in the throes of depression, and days from retirement. Edward Norton is a scratchy-voiced, corn-rowed con who pimps out his wife so Deniro will cut him some slack. Milla Jovovich (the only spark of life in the film) is the slutty wife.

The movie cops a cool, The Establishment/Christians-are-all-hypocrites 'cause-they're sinners-too attitude. Then apparently plugs some make-believe New Age religion. (But maybe was just pulling the audience's leg.)
The producer apparently blew the whole budget on big-name actors, because they could only afford a soundtrack consisting of annoying noises & four notes, repeated endlessly. (Not in a Phillip Glass way.)

Of note: a brief glimpse of Milla's small breasts & protuberant nipples.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats