iris wigle

True, it was slow paced. I did not find it boring. The directing was much like Paul Newman's. Peter Outerbridge definitely has improved with age. I mean...he was always good. But, in this movie, I did not recognize him at first. It's been a long time. The ending was a surprise. I did not expect the ending to be as it was...cause...the story...as presented focused on the story teller going back into the past. HE, Steve, witnessed a murder, and he presented it softly...softly...not right into the face of the accused who did not inherit the bar he was standing in. No wonder the bartender was afraid at the end. And, obviously, there would be no requirement to pay him. I thought the ending was brilliant. I could stroll down lists, upon lists of actors to play the part and could not find one to replace either actors. This movie is called a sleeper meaning, it won't make money right away, but maybe in the red for quite awhile. Towering Inferno, The Glass Menagerie, thousands of other movies were sleepers. I would recommend it to all my friends. It's true...old people...do not remember. I once thought of some women that were really mean to me when I was young. In reflection they were all either in graves or in rest homes and the past has to be pulled out of them. Best blackmailing movie I have ever watched. This is a great movie and book for literature teachers, high school, college, university. Teachers like books that trick students. It is actually better than, "Splendor in the Grass," and hundreds of other movies. Give one teacher such a book and everyone in his class would be buying it and watching the movie. I want to watch it all over again...I mite have missed something. Lawyers read Pacal's letter. My sister got an A cause I told her that the ending was in the middle and like this presentation, "The Oak Room," everything is mixed up. Pascal did believe in GOD and he, "knelt down in prayer both before the presentation and after. Tricky stuff...tricky...tricky...trick... I love it. Remember the door down in the cellar that Steve closed. It was telling the audience that it is NOT unusual for that door not to lock properly. Someone was hiding and witness the murder. How did he get in without being noticed. The door in the cellar. The swinging keys in the car obviously belonged to the black man. Steve's father was a mechanic. When one steps back...one can appreciate all the details. Steve is not going to have to pay for his father's funeral...and...he walks out for a ride out of the situation before the bartender can actually react to the black man coming into the bar. Fantastic writing! All actors did, again, a terrific job! This is also an excellent example of how a book is suppose to be written. Which is? All the questions that a reader may have must be answered by the end of the book. Compare it with the movie, "Hannah," and there are just too many questions as to why a doe like girl would be training to be an executioner. In this case, the audience may conclude that there has to be a second book.