The New England city is always portrayed as chippy and tough. What is it about its strange psychology that lends itself to such rough treatment?In the understated but highly effective new film highlight,the city of Boston, Massachusetts, or is depicted as a grey,inbred small town dominated by the Catholic church, one major ethnic group, or a cabal of ethically malleable lawyers,and a small group of civic leaders who all seem to know each other and who join together to maintain a lid on things. In new film Black Mass, the city of Boston, and Massachusetts,is depicted as a grey, inbred small town dominated by the Catholic Church, and one major ethnic group,a cabal of ethically malleable lawyers, and a small group of civic leaders who all seem to know each other and who join together to maintain a lid on things. Not all the villains in these films are my fellow Irish Catholics. But an awful lot of them are. An awful lot.highlight and Black Mass, and which share a somewhat subdued emotional tone,come on the heels of such Beantown fare as The Town, Mystic River, or The Boondock Saints and,most importantly, The Departed, and all of which depict Boston as an inbred small town that … well,you accumulate the general idea. The obvious question is: what did the grand city of Boston ever attain to end up so black and blue?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com