NCLEO DE LNGUAS ESTRAGEIRAS UECE

KAROLINE ASSUNO

MYSTIC RIVER
Teacher: Srgio Viana

FORTALEZA - 2012

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The Mystic River is a movie fantastic. In Brazil your title
is Sobre Meninos e Lobos, it was released in country in
2003. Direction by Clint Estwood, and script by Brian
Helgeland, the story is based in a book of same name,
written by Dennis Lehane, two years ago. In the cast
there are great actors, how: Sean Penn (Jemmy), Kevin
Bacon (Sean), and Tim Robbins (Dave).

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The Mystic River is a drama with a taste of thriller, it tells the story three
friends, who when childrens kidding the street are stopped by men in a
car black saying be police, but, actually, they are not police. Only one of
friends is taken by men, pedophiles, who sexually abused of boy for
more time. The boy, after of time, can run for forest. The time passed.

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The boys become adults and followed different ways, one is police, the
other is strange, type mobster, and the boy Dave, who was taken by
pedophiles, look like disturbed, how if the happened in your infancy had
left problems in your mind, but he has your family, wife and one son.

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One tragedy put the three friends back in one way, the daughter of
Jemmy is killed brutally, when back in the party. In the same day, Dave
return for home with clothes bloodstained, and says for wife, who had
killed one pedophile, because he seen abuse of a boy, but another days,
she seen nothing in the newspaper about the subject.

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In the moment, the movie makes the audience become thoughtful: the
killer daughter of Jemmy was Dave? Or Dave says the true? The
investigations are made for any time, but look like delay. Then, Jemmy
decides make your own investigation.

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The wife of Dave started a questions about the death pedophile, because
not notices in newspaper, then tells to Jemmy about your husband and
who happened in that night. Jemmy convicted who Dave is killer of your
daughter, he calls Dave to talk. And, same who Dave says dont is killer
of daughter, Jemmy kills Dave.