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21 Grams Movie Rating:  Moving | |
| Paul (Sean Penn), a professor needing a heart transplant, receives one when Jack (Benicio Del Toro), a born-again ex-con, accidentally kills the beloved husband and children of housewife Christina (Naomi Watts). | |
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Brought together by the tragedy, the three struggle to deal with grief,
guilt, and their own mortality in this mostly admirable film.
The fractured narrative style forces the audience to connect the dots of time, place, and
relationship as the story unfolds fugue-like, past and present overlapping, and
seemingly disparate lives ultimately combine to tell one story. Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores Perros) has great style, but allows easy platitudes like "life goes on" to cheapen the sombre questions his characters grapple with. Still, moving, award-worthy performances by Watts, Penn, and Del Toro make the flaws forgivable and the heaviness manageable. |
Naomi Watts. ©2003 Focus Films.
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