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Rule of Wrist
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The Rule of Wrist
Troy Duffys The Boondock Saints has recently become an underground cult
classic among the youth of the world. The Boondock Saints shows numerous portrayals
of numerous cultures here in America. The Boondock Saints illustrates, that for one to do
good, they dont always need to be classified as a “good guy” or “hero”.
Troy Duffys 1999 film The Boondock Saints, tells a story of two Irish-Bostonian
brothers (Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus). One day, by accident, the two boy
kill two Russian mobsters and get away with their guns and money. They turn
themselves into the cops claiming that it was self defence, which it was. This incident is
accidently leaked to the public and the public and press starts to refer to them as “Angels”
and “Saints” (ergo Boondock Saints). The city of Boston gives them praise because they
consider the brothers to be “cleaning up the city” of evil. The brother then reach a sort of
opifany, which makes them come to the job of “Gods Hitmen”, doing the lords work.
They then make it their duty to rid the city of all evil and corruption, such as gangs, drug
dealers, pimps, and the mob syndicate. The brothers believe that they have been chosen
by God to bring vengeance and righteous anger upon the evil of the city of Boston.
Early in the movie we meet the homosexual F.B.I. agent Paul Smecker (Willem
Dafoe). He works in the Organized Crime Task Force of the burreu. He is first brought
into the movie just to investigate the first murder, the one of the two Russian mobsters.
But his case begins to get thicker and thicker as the story goes on. The murders of the
brothers begin to pile up and he is stuck with trying to decide whether he should stop
them or not.
The film does show some stereotypical aspects of all the cultures in the movie,
mainly