After watching Miller’s Crossing, I have to say that I really enjoyed the movie.\u00c2\u00a0 However, we talked a lot in class about every detail in the movie occurring for a reason.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that I am not yet a sophisticated enough movie-watcher to uncover the subtle meanings behind the various symbols and motifs in the movie.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel like there was a lot going on that I havn’t really been able to work out in my head.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a lot of different themes going on.\u00c2\u00a0 One which struck me as particularly relevant was the theme that was repeated throughout that “You never know anybody.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that well.”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0A lot of the movie seemed to support the idea that no matter how much you think you know about a person or a situation, you might be completely wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 The movie showed a lot of different perspectives. For instance, Bernie’s death.\u00c2\u00a0 Each character in the movie had a completely different perspective of Bernie’s death, and each character was convinced they knew the truth.\u00c2\u00a0 The Fat guy whose name escapes me (is that Shad?) was so convinced that Bernie was dead by the hands of “Tommy” that he killed his partner to protect Tommy’s honor–honor that was utterly non-existent.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet Tommy is honorable, or at least he was to Bernie, until Bernie double crossed him.\u00c2\u00a0 Which brings us to another consistent theme in the movie–that of honor.\u00c2\u00a0 And the contrasting views of honor.\u00c2\u00a0 How you can kill someone and still be honorable; betray someone and still feel honorable.\u00c2\u00a0 Every character in the movie had their own unique honor code, most of which didn’t make much logical sense.\u00c2\u00a0 As you see by this very convoluted blog entry, there is so much happening in this movie that I’m not sure where to start, but I hope class today will give me more direction in terms of really understanding Miller’s Crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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