Sunday, April 1, 2007

United States of Leeland

This is a great movie. I love how it shows that everyone involved in the incident and Leeland's life had flaws. You sympathize with him, you know he wanted to do the right thing, but that doesn't make his crime okay. Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons is still wrong. The chronology could be a bit confusing (showing a girl in a Leeland flashback and having the scene end with her in the present), but there was really no other way to tell the story. If you knew everything up front it wouldn't have been as powerful.

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