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...same time, the family’s dirty laundry airs, and things get messy. Unfortunately, Gray’s writing is just as messy. Nonetheless, though the man may not understand how to shape a dramatic scene, he aces his action sequences. The undercover infiltration of a drug warehouse is tense and stifling, with each corridor distending into murky darkness, shot with just enough slow-motion to give the whole scene the feeling of a nauseous, hallucinated pipe dream. A car chase filmed mostly from within a pursued car feels suffocating because of Gray’s decision...
...safe for wife beaters. The case at hand dealt with a fillip in the vast edifice of Fourth Amendment law governing police searches. To wit: What if a husband and wife are together at their home and the wife invites the police in to search for her husband's drug paraphernalia but the husband says no? Is the consent of just one spouse sufficient? Previous courts had handled the slightly different instance in which one spouse is sleeping, as well as the slightly different instance in which the wife gets the drug paraphernalia and hands it to the police. This...
...have in the course of the film. Yet Gone Baby Gone has a lightness and humor to it. At one point, Ed Harris' police detective dismissively suggests that the young-looking Kenzie should forget the case and get back to his Harry Potter book. In another scene, a drug lord points a gun at Kenzie and warns that if he sees him again, he might "be discourteous...
...flooding the terminal with sunlight. Religious imagery adorned its neo-Gothic façade, and spires reached for the heavens. But maintaining that splendor proved difficult. Despite surviving the London Blitz and a planned demolition in 1966, the station fell into disrepair and became more synonymous with drug dealers and prostitutes than with imperial grandeur...
...crowd sat mostly silent as Poonsters bandied questions about backflips and drug use, interrupting only to hurl sporadic boos at the screen...