http://www.eckerd.edu/sundance/2009/01/22/mississippi-damned/ Thu, 24 May 2012 08:57:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.eckerd.edu/sundance/2009/01/22/mississippi-damned/#comment-41 Lizzy Kirkham Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:38:12 +0000 http://www.eckerd.edu/sundance/?p=1448#comment-41 I was definitely confused with the characters, but the plot itself is what shocked me so much. I was definitely confused with the characters, but the plot itself is what shocked me so much.

]]> http://www.eckerd.edu/sundance/2009/01/22/mississippi-damned/#comment-37 Nathan Andersen Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:20:32 +0000 http://www.eckerd.edu/sundance/?p=1448#comment-37 Just one minor issue: I believe that the man whose wallet Sammy steals from is not his father but his mother's occasional boyfriend - and I'm pretty sure that the woman in the picture is not his mother but his aunt, so that the girl in the picture is his cousin? (I agree with you that the film was powerful -- brilliantly shot and edited and with very strong performances, but I thought that there might have been too many characters and too many subplots. It got a bit confusing at times to sort out who was who and what their relationships to each other were.) Just one minor issue: I believe that the man whose wallet Sammy steals from is not his father but his mother’s occasional boyfriend - and I’m pretty sure that the woman in the picture is not his mother but his aunt, so that the girl in the picture is his cousin? (I agree with you that the film was powerful — brilliantly shot and edited and with very strong performances, but I thought that there might have been too many characters and too many subplots. It got a bit confusing at times to sort out who was who and what their relationships to each other were.)

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