![]() ![]() But director Michael Winterbottom doesn’t generate the pulp author’s rising pitch, in which the next shoe dropping never is the final one, and his attempts to convey the narrator’s pitch-black humor often rely on an off-target use of Western Swing tunes that make the action more jaunty and ironic than menacing. What should be a perfect premeditated crime actually leaves loose threads dangling, and Thompson’s book is a page-turning series of episodes in which Ford almost is caught and must invent a lie or kill someone to escape. Ford’s first victim is a prostitute he’s sleeping with - played by Jessica Alba, who’s unrecognizable after the startlingly long series of punches she receives in the end - who quickly is followed by the rich boy who wanted to run away with her. ![]() Set in a 1950s small town, the story plays with the notion that one of a town’s most respectable young men actually is a two-timer who loves rough sex and kills even when it hardly benefits him. ![]() Guest Column: How the Use of Open Captions Can Enhance Creativity, Not Just Accessibility ![]()
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