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Lenny - 7/10
Like most biopics finding a narrative throughline but for the genre this does as well as the bulk. Dustin Hoffman is very good through the entirety and they film hits all the major notes youd want to see covered.
the one moment i wish was in the film is after his final moment. he was famously found dead on his toilet from a morphine OD. the freind who found him pulled his pants up for dignity sake. the legend has it that the police, out of spite and vengeance, striped him naked and layed him in the bathroom floor arranging needles about him to make sure he was finally properly humilated before taking the crime scene photo.
including the photo as the final shot of the film was a great touch for the emotional resonance but to omit the conspiracy i think is a mistake. it should have been an opportunity, like Lennys material, to analyse the hypocrisy and obscenity of the system.
solid film but i wish they had been more aggressive
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