Saturday, September 29, 2012

Not-so-happy endings


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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