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Originally Posted by MJD64
Couldn't disagree more, Ray Jackson. De Niro is playing a man who is far too passive in both his relationships and the actions that will shape his life and can only display his roiling emotions through violence. He spends a lifetime of pained regret mourning both a close friend and childhood love who have both essentialy betrayed him. After having this tragic life, he discovers the truth at an age when he simply can't even bring himself to care anymore. In short, he's the loser in this story and I feel De Niro (again, in his own understated but clearly pained way) conveys that superbly.
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Well I think those are perfectly reasonable counter arguments.