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Review title: the medium might be the message here
Product review: I've read enough trash heaped on the novel that I'm definitely going to have to gather a superhuman amount of strength to form my own opinion about it. Probably never will read it actually. The movie, however, was not half so bad as many of the informed opinions implied. What we get is a so-so romance novel depicted by actors (Streep and Eastwood) who know entirely what they are about. Eastwood is not doing his normal turn here. He is showing us that he has some vulnerability to expose, after all. The tin man has a heart. Streep is Streep. I don't care if she is the lead in a Betty Boop Cartoon, she is going to make it interesting. Maybe the plot is offensive in a Southern Baptist sense of the term; the story plays on the screen. Eastwood shows a great deal of dexterity in directing this little treat. He's not pretending to be Truffaut. Just a simple narrative, told from a simple perspective.
