[sungwei]

Just saw Mystic River last night. Directed by Clint Eastwood, starting Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. Did anyone notice that the only black guy in the movie played by Laurence Fishborne was named ****** Powers? I mean, doesn't that strike you kind of weird? ***********? ****** Powers? Only black guy in the movie? Was that some kind of statement? I'm not trying to say it was racist, maybe it was anti racist in some way. I dunno, but I swear, three times in that movie at least he was introduced as ****** Powers. Anyone catch this?

By the way it's a great movie. Story is OK, but the acting is excellent.

 

[firefighter81]

I noticed that too, took me a minute to really grasp his name. I don't know if it's some kind of hidden message or not. Yes, it was a good movie.

 

[kyoung]

My wife and I checked it out. It struck me right away that his name was ****** Powers. It was the same in the book. There was a lot of symbolism and irony in the movie and more so in the book. It was a part of the psychie of the story...which was twisted in itself....a good movie though, a much better book.

 

[Mucho Gonzales]

i dunno, i imagine his name was such for enterainment purposes. now that i think about it, would any black person name their son '******'? i just checked to see what race ****** Ford was...lol

i wasn't too impressed with the movie, it moved kinda slow.

 

[sungwei]

Ok, so it wasn't just me and I guess if that was the name in the book then it must carry some kind of meaning. Wonder what. Just as another side note, did anyone notice that when they were reviewing all the names of the employees that worked for the liquor store one of them was named Dookie Brown or something?

 

[cookhj]

wierd ass movie.....in a good way. but it was kinda slow.