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| Monster's Ball is a powerfull and poignant motion picture not about racism and redemption, as mone might initially suppose, but about one of the most urgent and universal human needs - that of finding solace for pain and loneliness. Though is has some of the trappings of an interracial romance, Monster's Ball is not that either, The sex in this movie is not a precursor to love; it is a means by which two people can find temporary refuge from their other bleak existences. ... Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thorton) Leticia Musgrove (Halle Barry) Lawrence (Sean Combs) Peter Boyle and Heath Ledger. ... This is an anti-Hollywood a film as I have seen in recent months, one which takes conventional plot ideas and uses them not to season a melodrama, but to enrich fully three-dimensional characters and create a more forceful motion picture. Hand and Leticia do not let go you, even once the end credits have rolled. |
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