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movie review - Albino Alligator

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 1997.07.23

The "directorial debut" of the fellow from Swimming With Sharks, Seven, and The Usual Suspects. You know. Won some awards. Kevin Spacey! Anyway, this was WAY over directed. Everything was wooden and stilted, and the camera director was doing every fancy trick ever dreamed of. Pretty disappointing.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl