I gotta say, Michael Clayton = instantly forgettable.
Instantly forgettable, whereas Dogma and Stroszek command months of your attention.
Do you really think high-powered law firms have their own hit squads? Did you really buy that?
I'm sure a few have. They represent them, they certainly have access. Only two people at the Michael Clayton firm discussed that stuff - it's not like it was a firm-wide conspiracy. Lawyers have never had people killed?
Also, what was with that weird Equus moment? I know the writer had to get Clooney out of the car so that it could blow up without him inside of it, but did he have to make him stop to pet the horsies? Why not just have him pull over to buy a balloon?
My dad thinks the three horses represent Michael, Arthur(Wilkinson), and Marty(Pollack), three lawyers who had slowly sold their soul, all of them suffering for it. They'd lost their way. (the horses were unfenced, next to a road.)
That moment, dad believes, is Michael's moment of clarity. The car blowing up is the light going off in his head - he sees the way to save himself. Head for the hills, Michael!
It sounds like a good explanation to me, though maybe you're right and the filmmakers put zero thought into their multi-million dollar Clooney film, hiring horse wranglers all willy-nilly.
Also, Tilda Swinton's twitching got on my nerves.
Yeah, the close-ups of her armpits were disconcerting, too - I guess that was just THE ROLE!!! She played an extremely nervous character! What do you want, Dean Martin?
I love you, APmike, so if my response to your movie review seems needlessly hostile, just take into account how much I miss
The Wire forum, and how wrong-headed you were in there, too.

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