The rest of the class seems like they're completely dead/disinterested. The chairs are all arranged in a circle and Mary (Anna Paquin) who is dressed very provocatively, and has a giant henna tattoo on her stomach, is reading a poem out loud. In a classroom, Jakob "Jake" Elinsky (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is teaching his poetry class. He asks if she could help him find Jake Elinsky, his friend. ![]() She tells him that record was broken just last year, and she knows because she coaches the girls' team. She thaws a little bit as he shows her himself in the photo and says he held some big record. He tells her that he used to go to this school, and was on the basketball team, was doing well til he was kicked out of the school for fighting. Monty stands looking at a display of sports trophies and old photos, til a school administrator confronts him and tells him to leave with the dog. Monty and Doyle walk along the streets of NYC, and end up on the campus of what looks like a private prep school. The junkie just doesn't seem to get it, says he's been coming to Monty for 5 years and that he'll remember this! He lurches off, and Monty wanders away with Doyle. A strung out junkie comes to Monty begging for a fix, and Monty tells him to go to Harlem, because he's been "touched" and is out of the business. PRESENT: Monty is sitting at the pier with the dog, whom he named Doyle. He grabs it in his jacket, and sticks it in his trunk, and though the dog bites him, he's very impressed with that fighting spirit. They're late to meet with some "important people." They find a badly injured dog that was obviously abandoned after a dogfight, and Monty wants to first shoot the dog with Kostya's gun (as a mercy killing) and then when he sees what a scrapper the pup is, he decides to save the dog. He references "Doyle's Law" rather than Murphy's Law. Kostya has a heavy accent and some trouble with English idioms. Here we go!"įLASHBACK: The movie begins as Montgomery "Monty" Brogan (Edward Norton) is driving in NYC with Kostya (Tony Siraguza), his Russian/Ukranian mobster-type muscle. ![]() Wouldn't he have been remanded into custody upon being sentenced? Well, that's neither here nor there. The really confusing thing for me was why Monty was being allowed to roam freely when he's already been sentenced to his prison term. Intercut with flashbacks, the movie slowly reveals details about Monty and his friends and family and how he ended up in this situation. ![]() It takes place over the course of one day, before the main character, Monty (Edward Norton) is sent upstate to jail with a 7 year sentence for dealing drugs. I'm not sure I got all the details in the right order, because the movie isn't plot driven as much as it's character driven. NOTE: This spoiler was sent in by endorap who warns us.
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