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Poet and the Con: Romantics
at Heart of Stirring Documentary
Then right out of left field
comes a series of unexpected, jarringly ironic developments that
propels "The Poet and the Con" into a much deeper,
far more harrowing film. In these later sequences, shot in color,
Trules in effect has to ask his questions all over again, considering
notions of family, morality, fate and mortality on a larger plane.
If ever there was an instance of good coming out of evil, this
film is it, for Trules, in a most caring, sensitive way, makes
the most of a drastic turn of events to consider how love and
anguish become inextricably intertwined within deeply felt family
ties.
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