5/12/2023 0 Comments The rum diary hunter thompson![]() ![]() There are several secondary characters who do their best to be a bit insane, including Giovanni Ribisi as a drugged out waif of a reporter, something like what Thompson himself might have become later in life. ![]() You can in a way watch this for those surfaces, if you don't need too much more. ![]() It pushes the clichés too hard, and it's generally agreed (even by Thompson) that the material is weak and "rambling." The movie doesn't rearrange it enough to make it work. The depth you might expect and want here is slim, however, even though all the pieces are in play for a great drama-a charming troubled writer in a land filled with prejudice and violence and great natural beauty. There is a true surface here that's pretty amazing-the cars, the low down rot of the apartments, the racism between the rich white Americans and the indigenous Puerto Ricans. Johnny Depp stars and runs the show in his usual strong if uninspired way as a new, hard-drinking reporter with a failing English language newspaper in Puerto Rico. In a way this is a more cogent movie than say "Fear and Loathing…" but it's also a bit prosaic beneath the wilder stuff that peppers the surface. Rum Diary (2011) If you're looking for the craziness of later Hunter S. ![]()
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