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Next to the museum, behind a gate (opened to anyone who knocks), is the Old Protestant Cemetery.
As he thunders off, he knocks a small scarecrow, which spins around--the perfect "button" for the sequence.
Director Scott Hicks ( Shine ) takes a few knocks: "If ever there was an example of a director's getting in the way of a story, this is it" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Strangely enough, Ethan Hawke--the film's biggest star--gets almost no mention.
Truman himself encountered him, he wrote, in the form of mysterious knocks on the door and receding footfalls.
If a husband knocks his wife down, breaks her jaw or arm - abuses her terribly - he will be picked up and put in jail.