Admirably Perfect and Impossible to Love: When Mastery Creates a Yawn

[...]it is a nearly perfect film, and utterly, utterly boring." Daughters who died of drug overdoses, marriages falling apart, despair nigh onto suicide, anger issues, pressure from the mayor's office, officious supervisors who somehow were put in charge even though they know nothing of re...

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Published in:World literature today 2017-11, Vol.91 (6), p.15-17
Main Author: Davis, J. Madison
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Crime
Crime & Mystery
Crime fiction
Crime novels
Criminal investigation
Criticism
Criticism and interpretation
Detective and mystery stories
Drug overdose
Film adaptations
Film criticism
Law
Law enforcement
Literary criticism
Literary tropes
Motion pictures
Movie adaptations
Movies
Mysteries
Mystery fiction
Novelists
Novels
Police
Practice
Television miniseries
Writers
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Summary:[...]it is a nearly perfect film, and utterly, utterly boring." Daughters who died of drug overdoses, marriages falling apart, despair nigh onto suicide, anger issues, pressure from the mayor's office, officious supervisors who somehow were put in charge even though they know nothing of real police work-all are common as dandelions. [...]life is quite predictable, but it's the quirky details and events that give us pause, that make us look more closely and feel the wonder. J. Madison Davis is the author of eight mystery novels, including The Murder of Frau Schütz, an Edgar nominee, and Law and Order: Dead Line.
ISSN:0196-3570
1945-8134
1945-8134
DOI:10.1353/wlt.2017.0084