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Message: [QUOTE="Palatine, post: 4636368, member: 974"] This movie is a perfect illustration of why I call Eastwood the anti-Tarantino. QT never lets you forget you are watching a movie. Eastwood never lets you know you are watching a movie. He shoots simply. Rarely moves to the camera in a way that you notice the shot. The characters are always real and underplayed even in the most dramatic of moments. Kathy Bates is tremendous in this film. Completely authentic. Choosing Sam Rockwell proved very wise, Eastwood was able to bring out his humanity and Rockwell slows plays the tenuous and growing relationship between Bryant and Jewell. The Hauser character is treated with respect and empathy even as he is portrayed as an arrognat loser by Hauser. The story itself results in this movie being less than stellar. But it is a telling warning about how the government and media would rather crush the innocent than admit a mistake. [/QUOTE]