John Travolta gloomy heads his way through while “lovely recreating” the 1940s in ne crime documentary based on the “lonely heart” killers and is bizarrely directed by Travolta himself, playing the ‘grandson’ of one of the detectives on the case. The married couple who murdered and robbed women who placed ad’s in newspapers and then got executed for it in 1951, are already the subject of a counter culture classic but their story leans to the more obscure side with The Honeymoon Killers in 1970.
Unlike Honeymoon Killers, here, there is no such hymn to absurdity: Lonely Hearts is devoid as in any hope with an unusual focus on gloomy, masculine cops battling their inner demons as well as on the strange outlaws they are pursuing. James Gandolfini, more chargeable with dour despair, is does his work boldly and powerfully. Salma Hayek is also voicing her thought and wonders around the world of upbeat femininity, but this ultra-sculpted triumph of production design makes you feel there is something missing, and while rawness would have made a big difference, it did not come through the machined eye.
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Don’t waste time trying to negotiate with a future version of you. Doing so will only lead to disappointment ‘that version’ of you never shared your intentions of writing a play or reading 50 books a year. Let me drop a truth bomb: if that future version of you only manages to read nine books in 2025, you’ll still have nine times more knowledge than in 2024.
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