What’s with this new fad of ending books and movies suddenly,
with no warning?
In the last week, I read “Gone
Girl,” a riveting mystery that ended when the author apparently got writer’s
cramp … went to the theater to see The Master which inexplicably ended the way it started because the
screenwriter/ director, Paul Thomas Anderson, had written himself into a corner
from which he couldn’t escape, as he did five years ago with There Will Be Blood …. and tonight on
pay-per-view we watched Arbitrage,
the much ballyhooed new movie starring Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon. Just as I was wondering how Gere,
a Madoff-like character, was going to extricate himself from the latest pickle
in which he found himself, the credits started rolling.
It’s maddening and, if you ask me, it
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