Wow.

January 18, 2018 by Matthew Lickona at 11:06 am

I almost think the opening scene of Nocturnal Animals is there to scare the moralists away via aesthetic assault. (It also serves a narrative/thematic function, sure, but…) Because after that, it plays out with the blunt trauma moral force of a Flannery O’Connor story, only without the promise of grace. Maybe it was the tequila watching, but I liked it a lot.

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Quin Finnegan says

January 18, 2018 at 11:09 pm

It was no Silence, but I’ll give it another shot.

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Big Jon Bully says

January 19, 2018 at 11:57 am

Looks good.

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