No, if you read my post you’ll see I’m responding to an article (not a review) in the NYTs this week. Ebert writes for the Chicago Tribune. I read his review: not bad and he admits to having a crush on Kim Darby. Hard to believe from that mean old man!
In the NYTs article, it talks about Mattie’s religiousity and glee in watching three men being hanged. That spooked me. In both the novel and the original film, she is sickened by the hanging.
I assume you saw the movie and that the Times reporter is another east coast lib jerk who only sees what he wants to see, lol!
Probably because Kim looked like a 14 year old boy in that movie. ;)
I have not seen the movie yet, but Personal Responsibility has. Perhaps he can confirm or deny what you’ve heard about the movie.
I saw it this afternoon. I didn’t think she took glee or was sickened by the hanging. The only emotion she displayed at all was anger toward her father’s killer. She was an emotionless seeker of vengance. Her emotional range was like Wednesday Adams. Or Arnold as the Terminator. Single minded, goal oriented and willing to do whatever needed to be done to accomplish her goal. There was no emotion shown in anything that was extraneous to that task.