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Tango0104 Oct 2018 10:30 p.m. PST

…Forgiveness

"Warner Bros. has released The Mule trailer. Clint Eastwood returns to the screen for his latest directorial effort, which sees him playing Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who, broke and alone, decides to take a job as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Bradley Cooper costars as a DEA agent hot on Stone's trail.

I honestly don't know what to make of The Mule. There's clearly a lot of sympathy for Stone and the choices he's made, and on the one hand, that seems like a powerful story. You have a man near the end of his life trying to atone for the mistakes he's made, and yet he continues to make more mistakes. And yet it seems like the only person who gets any humanity here is Stone, so the film has to answer why he, a drug courier that audiences would likely dismiss if he were young and a person of color, is deserving of our sympathy. Is it because of his age? Because he's alone? I'll admit this movie has far more of my curiosity than Eastwood's previous effort from this year, The 15:17 to Paris, but I don't know if he'll stick the landing…."
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Cacique Caribe05 Oct 2018 1:55 a.m. PST

I'll pass. I have no sympathy for mules, unless they are the four-legged kind.

Bringing over here stuff* that poisons and destroys the bodies and lives of old and young alike, just to get a few dollars from violent drug lords, is not a subject I'm interested in. I don't care to watch yet another film that tries to get emotions to overrule logic and morality. There's already too much unnecessary blurring of lines in film as it is. And I've seen too much of it in real life to ever consider it entertaining.

So no. I love Eastwood and most of his work, but no. I'm not a blind follower, obviously. Just my opinion and my choice of course. You guys can form your own without any help from me.

Dan
* Both the drugs and the violence it brings.

ZULUPAUL Supporting Member of TMP05 Oct 2018 3:02 a.m. PST

I'll pass also, no interest in making any part of the drug culture look acceptable.

Tango0105 Oct 2018 11:57 a.m. PST

I would see it only because of Clint… great fan of him…

and because there would be not many more movies with him….

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Earl of the North08 Oct 2018 7:01 a.m. PST

I'm not sure the aim is to make it look acceptable, having seen the trailer it looks more like what is left of his life collapsing due to his becoming a mule.

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