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joshhansonhorror 's review for:
Rumble Fish
by S.E. Hinton
THe whole way through, I couldn't decide if Hinton had hit on a truly brilliant voice or the most laugh-out-loud awful voice ever. I'm still not sure.
On the one hand, I love the idea of telling a Curly Shepard story rather than a Ponyboy Curtis story. And the book is pretty effective at stripping away the resources of intelligence and insight. Unfortuantely, what it replaces it with is a weird, noirish patois and a kind of stubborn insistence that the story (which is so thin as to be utterly beside the point) has some symbolic weight.
If you've been unfortunate enough to see Coppola's film, you can see that he read it as an over-the-top symbolic noir-fest, and he made a ridiculous film along those lines.
I just don't know. A worthwhile exercise?
On the one hand, I love the idea of telling a Curly Shepard story rather than a Ponyboy Curtis story. And the book is pretty effective at stripping away the resources of intelligence and insight. Unfortuantely, what it replaces it with is a weird, noirish patois and a kind of stubborn insistence that the story (which is so thin as to be utterly beside the point) has some symbolic weight.
If you've been unfortunate enough to see Coppola's film, you can see that he read it as an over-the-top symbolic noir-fest, and he made a ridiculous film along those lines.
I just don't know. A worthwhile exercise?