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Friday, December 10, 2010

Mystery Train (1989)


A mystery by Jim Jarmusch, starring Steve Buscemi and Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
A Japanese couple arrive in Memphis to do some sight seeing and spend the night in a cheap hotel. In the morning they hear a gunshot. Meanwhile, a girl is getting kicked out of the hotel when a woman who missed her flight enters and they split a room. They too hear a gunshot in the morning. Meanwhile, a man is at a nearby bar causing problems and pulls out a gun. He is escorted out by friends and they shoot the clerk at a liquor store before going to the cheap hotel.
This is another example of some ideas that I've mentioned before. "Golden age of modern cinema" relating to movies from the late 80s and early 90s, and the idea of plot, setting and characters. There were no special effects and barely anything that could be called action, but this film still pulls it's weight. They took a simple idea like people hearing a sound and built a story to explain why those people were there and what made the noise. On top of that, the plot twists at the end and destroys any preconceived notion of what you thought was happening. I'm rating it good for being well made and creative.

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