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Broken Flowers: Don Johnson
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Broken Flowers is a quest story of a different kind. Don isn't actively looking to rescue anyone, and he's not consumed with finding his holy grail. Instead, avowed bachelor Don is sort of pushed, kicking and screaming, into his quest. After years of moving from one girlfriend to the next, Don receives an anonymous pink letter.
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While "Broken Flowers" is not quite the masterpiece its best notices imply, it is a movie that sticks to your ribs, and in your psyche. Long after building to a finale of perfect audience-character synchronicity -- which leaves Don ironically more perplexed than ever but more clear-headed at the same time -- you can still taste the film's mood like a delicious meal.
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Despite a certain uneven and occasionally meandering quality to the film, Broken Flowers never loses its punch in this regard. The business with the possible son is less well-achieved, though it has its moments, especially in the scene where Don doesn't pursue the possible answer to the question when he arrives at a street sign reading, "Do Not Enter."
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Like Lost In Translation, Broken Flowers explores communication (or lack of) between the sexes. Essentially revolving around Don’s quest, from the off it’s hard to buy the notion that Don was, and is, something of a ladies’ man who may have fathered a child. Instead you’ll want to write him off as a charmless, sullen-faced soul with a penchant for tracksuits.
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At present, there is a lot of hype surrounding “Brokeback Mountain,” the so-called “gay cowboy movie.” Interestingly, “Broken Flowers” shares something in common with “Brokeback” since both films deal with paths unchosen. One obvious difference, though, is that the characters in “Brokeback Mountain” were forced to choose their paths. Don’s decision was his own, and only by the film’s end does he fully realize its severity.
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