Yes, Spaihts and director Morten Tyldum turn Jim's essentially murderous act (Another
character even agrees with this assessment, only to dismiss it with the shaky metaphor
of a
drowning man pulling an innocent person under with him) into fodder for a discomforting romance.
Three novellas from a master
of the genre offer
characters that have staying power: a wealthy 67 - year - old
man, describing events leading up to the
drowning of a younger friend; a Native American tracking a double - dealing friend to recover a clan relic, his stolen bearskin; and a middle - aged writer
of formulaic biographies who glibly narrates his tribulations.