Great Commercial Fiction "My Tomatoes Are Real"
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By Rah Ethereal
As an individual who study's screenplay writing, literary fiction, and commercial fiction on my own in my spare time, I know the difference between genres in all forms of literature...literary as well as popular / commercial. Exit Wounds is an ACTION & ADVENTURE movie, not a literary story. There is a story here, and probably those who are blinded by bias and prejudice will not see the story. In this movie DMX and Steven Seagal play what I call a dual protagonist role, and the story is about DMX's younger brother getting framed by corrupt police officers, with DMX holding all of the facts with Seagal hunting those facts down. Seagal finally catches up with DMX and his undercover spy operation, they both join forces to bring down the corrupt police officers, and bring the necessary evidence to free DMX's younger brother from jail. This is an ACTION & ADVENTURE film, so you should see a lot of A...C...T...I...O...N. Great stories are driven by ACTIVE--not PASSIVE--protagonists. A movie is a VISUAL STORY, so yes, you should see "the grisly, electric mayhem that ensues when these two guys hit the streets." If all you want is a story go read a book, trust me, I love books; however, I know the difference between a story in a book, and a story on screen. This movie is based on the Novel "Exit Wounds" by John Westermann who teaches Fiction Writing at Stony Brook University, I guarantee you can find a good S...T...O...R...Y there. Those who are interested in the soundtrack, I recommend you go to a CD store, and import it to your iTunes Library, and locate the album art online. I do not know if iTunes collects music files from our personal libraries on our iMacs, thanks to yours truly, it might appear on iTunes sometime in the future. I imported the Soundtrack to my iTunes Library and found the album artwork too.
