![]() Multiple sub-arcs, detailed character studies, an eclectic cast and everybody is tainted, no one's perfect just people with their own goals and failings trying to live their lives. Anyway I feel many of the 'Hollywood' movies of the 1970s were anti-commercial, ambiguous, innovative and envelope pushing, and this 1995 published book totally fits that bill. ![]() ![]() I only watch movies made before 1979, maybe because they were screened and/or available when I was a kid? God knows!. That enough? How about the story being initially broken by a woman that gets infatuated with dangerous men on Death Row, who's fallen for Van Wetter! Florida, and it's 1969: three paperboys, two reporters making waves smelling a big story, and a brother of one of them (through whom this story is mostly told), an actual paperboy, that drives around the state delivering his dad's regional paper, come together to investigate the conviction of the Death Row resident, and 'white trash' wildman, Hillary Van Wetter who although a nasty piece of work, may have been railroaded in being (death) sentenced for the brutal murder of a local celebrity, but rabid racist, sexist, quasi criminal sheriff. A major motion picture book cover featuring Zac efron and Nicole Kidman was not the reason I picked this up in a charity shop, it was the simple but (to me) pretty ambiguous book title 'The Paperboy', and boy was I rewarded for this book cover buy. ![]()
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