Or, The Boston Story, as it was known as throughout filming, is a classy screenplay, with beautifully disguised plot points early on (Joaquin's character was formerly a lift operator, and one of his classes is an 'randomness and chance'; the winning of a prize flashlight at the fair).
The use of 'The In Crowd' by Ramsey Lewis is a departure point, but this time I was thinking about those thrillery scenes (the murder, stealing the cyanide) which are cut to it and I realised that the music actually works against the scene - it makes light of drama, in other words. Which is odd. It changes the mood of the whole film, in fact, and causes one to watch with the head at an angle, like a puzzled dog.
"He could always cloud the issue with words."
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