Clint Eastwood could apparently not resist the real story of how a successful grower of daylilies in their old age became one of the mexican victims Sinaloas most successful kokainkurirer.
the Story, however, required some rewrites, changes and sentimentaliseringar to be in a time when AMERICA’s great political battle is about the construction of a stålmur against Mexico.
This should not be arrangged if it’s solid adaptation of Nick Schenk made in the script, also the author of the melancholy story of Walt Kowalski in ”Gran Torino”.
– the american film tåligaste eternell and artisans – once again himself. He is a little thinner and a little more fragile than before, but nevertheless precise and aware of their expressions. It includes the single occasion when he raises one corner of her mouth in a characteristic grimace.
in order For the viewer not to miss out on the point in his slightly slanted, sliding gait is allowed a few participants in the film say, in comparisons with the James Stewart, not just once. Even more times skämtas it on his full handfallenhet the face of mobiles.
the Character Earl Stone begins as a charming and award-winning travel in the daylilies, ever ready with a jokingly words about their own ageing and a compliment to the adoring ladies. He enjoys oförställt to stand in the center of attention and to invite the team around in the bars.
With the internet-trade entry happen to Stones in the plantations on the poor, and he allows himself to motståndslöst enlisted as knarkkurir. While the net can be tightened by a zealous DEA agent (Bradley Cooper) can he travel many times through the breathtakingly beautiful landscape between Texas and Chicago.
, he is buying a new shiny car, and finally re-establishes the he relationship with his neglected family.
It is in the redeeming moral of ”The Mule” finally ends up: a man should never neglect his family in favor of a evasive american dream.
the Threat to his seemingly innocent and unaware management consists of the mexican droghandlarna, almost all uncivilized, tattooed brutes.
The Mule, mulan, is the aptly untranslated title, really uttydd ”the Courier”. Just as mulan is a mixture of horse and donkey, is the movie a mix between the inexplicable american naivete and commercial mexican gangsterism.
As an american colleague has already pointed out: it is probably not until this version of reality pops up in the Fox News.
See more. Clint eastwood’s best films as a director: ”The merciless” (1992), ”the Bridges of Madison County” (1995) and ”Mystic River” (2003).
