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Random Hearts
There's nothing
I like more than a
thought provoking movie. However, I do have my limits. Random Hearts does throw out some interesting questions about the nature of adultery, but it's not enough to keep me interested through an overly simplistic plot and lacklusteer performances. |
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| Harrison
Ford and Kristen Scott Thomas have some really interesting characters in
this movie. Ford is Dutch, a volatile internal affairs police
officer. Thomas is a Republican congress woman named Kay Chandler
running for reelection. The two do not know each other, but they
have mutual friends. Namely, their respective spouses are having
affairs with one another.
Dutch is the first to figure this out after a Florida bound airplane carrying the illicit lovers in adjoining seats crashes. Trying to restore meaning to his marriage, Dutch hounds Kay about her husband and her life with him. She resists at first, remembering her political career, then tries to figure it out with him. There is a telling sex scene and romance ensues. This is where the movie starts to go nowhere. The plot loses sight of its intended concepts. Kaye confesses to being changed by Dutch, proven only through buttery soundbites and confessions to him. The idea of subversively trying to understand Dutch's wife using her time with him is given barely a mention. Dutch himself becomes virtually alien, mostly because he hasn't got any lines. Instead, he becomes increasingly angry and paranoid (presumably because of knowledge of the affair), and becomes set on vengeance in a subplot concerning his occupation. The idea of trying to figure out why his spouse did what she did is dropped at this point, exchanging substance for slow melodrama. Here, the movie loses any meaning, goes limp and dies. If you want to know what happens at the end, don't watch it. Just email me and I'll tell you. |
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