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Title: Melodramatic showcase for actor Ed Harris.
Review: One wonders why Ed Harris decided to make this film at all. As he even says he does not try to psychoanalyse Pollock -- but instead Harris in an apparent "honest depiction" shows Jackson as a pathetic alcholic, compulsive adulterer and possibly a suicide (and perhaps a murderer?)who is struggling to achieve recognition within the artscene circle.As far as the trademark style of Pollock, director Ed Harris shows Jackson Pollock stumbling upon a painting technique or imho a novel never-before-done gimmick which the shallow art world chooses to consume.After viewing the film one is left less appreciative of the art of Jackson Pollock given the way the film depicts him.
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