Scream from Try Seventeen

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It's brought to a head by reading this one letter that tells him his anger all these years has been focused in the wrong direction.</div> <div>  <A NAME="try17top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 1.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2822ca50.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="165" ALT="Jones (Elijah Wood) discovers the letter his mother left for him to read" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 2.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2842ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 3.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2862ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 4.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2882da50.jpg" border=0 width="301" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 5.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="28a2ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 6.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="28b2da50.jpg" border=0 width="301" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 7.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="28d2ca30.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="163" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 8. (Some nicely understated nostril acting going on here.)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="28f2ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 9.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2912ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 10.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2932ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 11.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2952ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 12.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2972ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 13.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2992ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 14.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="29b2ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 15.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="29d2da50.jpg" border=0 width="301" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 16.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="29f2ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 17.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2a12ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 18.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2a32ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 19.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2a52ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 20.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2a72ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 21.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2a92ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 22.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2ab2ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 23.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2ad2ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 24.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2af2ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 25.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2b12ca40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 26.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2b32da50.jpg" border=0 width="301" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Interesting that all the times Jones is able to be openly angry (the fight with Steve being, I think, a lot more important than his "fantasy fulfillments"), come <I>after </I>this scene.  Jane's line about her initial photo of Jones showing someone who's feeling pain for the first time applies (IMHO) more to the entire movie than it does to "just" Jones getting pepper spray in his eyes.  By the end of the film, Jones has felt a <I>lot </I>of things for the first time, because he's allowed himself to feel them.  </div> <bR> <div> In this scene, he finally allows himself to acknowledge the anger that's always been there--and does so (courageously, in my opinion) at the moment he least understands it.  It strikes me as a chosen action rather than uncontrollable rage.  Up until about pic 11 or 12, I think Jones could have easily crumpled up the letter, stuffed his anger, and walked away.  But, for whatever reason, by pic 13, he's made the decision <I>not </I>to do that--for possibly the first time in his life. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/ejw/id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/ejw/id32.htm"><U><B>General comments on this movie</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#try17top" TITLE="Scream from Try Seventeen"><U><IMG SRC="1647d3c0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="303" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#000000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#000000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" 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