Saturday, January 28, 2012

J. Edgar (2011)

Momma's boy is spurred by her into becoming a big police chief. He modernizes libraries, then the police. Rejected by a girl at work, he turns to boys. His strange perversion is having meals with one of them. He wiretaps people in power. He becomes too powerful himself. His mother makes a speech, then dies. After his death, the girl who rejected him burns all his "private files".

A film consisting in alternating a man's old age with his own account of his youth. My opinion of it should be inferrable from the synopsis above, but, to spell it out, I frankly do not get what the precise point is, and the dialogue and dramatics follow recent standards of inverisimilitude and enigmatic patterns of behavior and emotionalism.

Rating: 28

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