Mystic River

Mystic River is a film that can tell us lots of insights about just a film and how characters can be looked at over the course of the movie. When we look at Jimmy there has always been an obstacle in his way no matter what. We are shown that Jimmy has a cross on his back. What this is exemplifying is that he is being crucified by an obstacle. As we can see from this wide shot as Jimmy is in the room by himself almost like he is just trapped. We are shown that Jimmy is struggling with something that he had just done and knows that he had just killed the someone who was proven innocent. 

With many of the aspects going on with the shot that Jimmy is in we are lead to the point of his buddy Sean Penn who is a police officer inspecting the case of who killed Jimmy's daughter Katie. With this medium shot we are told a lot of things as it is being directed towards Jimmy. We are shown two sides of thoughts. Belief or disbelief because as Sean is pointing his finger in a gun type gesture towards Jimmy we are being told if he was the murderer of their old pal Dave. Or we can also consider that maybe Jimmy did do the right thing. As soon as Dave stepped into the car with the two molesters their childhood friend had been completely erased from who they used to know. We the audience have our agreements and disagreements from what we our shown. We can conclude that this film still has a lot to talk about because there are other sides of the story that we can hear from others.