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| | Austin360 Holiday Weekend Cinema: '21 Grams' Reviews -- Chicago Tribune |
 | | Gradually, the inexorable destiny emerges, as the characters, unable to escape, hurtle toward reckoning or death: the moment, we are told, when the human body suddenly sheds 21 grams, the weight of a hummingbird or a stack of nickels. |
 | | ("21 Grams" was initially conceived as Mexican.) But Arriaga, a devotee of the American novelist William Faulkner, ("The Sound and the Fury," "As I Lay Dying") tells extreme stories in intense, sometimes disorienting ways. |
 | | I liked "21 Grams" a lot the first time through, but the movie almost demands a second viewing, and it's so harsh and bleak, so unrelentingly dark and in strange way, so artificial and melodramatic that few may be willing to chance it again. |
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