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Article: Monster's Ball. (Film Reviews).
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- June 22, 2002
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Produced by Lee Daniels; directed by Marc Forster: screenplay by Milo Addica and Will Rokos; cinematography by Roberto Schaefer; production design by Monroe Kelly; edited by Matt Chesse; costume design by Frank Fleming; starring Billy Bob Thornton, Ha lie Berry, Peter Boyle, Heath Ledger, Sean Combs. Color, 111 mins. A Lions Gate Films Release.
Three times in Marc Forster's Monster's Ball, Billy Bob Thornton's character is shown wiping blood off various surfaces--a shopping bag, a car seat, the back of a leather chair--in a literal and symbolic attempt to hide the marks of the cruelty and carelessness that people inflict upon one another. This is a brilliant ...