A star must have admirers. “You want to be like me or you want to be me?” Jesse asks Bob, fixing him with his clear, and clearly insane, gaze. (The question jumps out of the narrative: Pitt may have won the Best Actor award at Venice, but the movie belongs to awkward, whiny Affleck.)
Brad Pitt was like a mix between his character in Legends of the Fall and Tyler Durden. Or maybe the dude in Snatch (although they’re pretty much the same character). Affleck was like Crispin Glover except slightly more subdued. When Hoberman writes about the movie’s wide open spaces, georgraphical and psychological, I think he’s actually just saying that the movie was really long.
