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Bill Clinton is apparently based on the main protagonist of the three books, Flem Snopes.
Critics deem Hurt a much underrated talent and say his performance evokes the protagonist of Thomas Mann's 1912 Death in Venice . "A creep, but a true hero" (David Denby, New York ). (Edelstein reviews the film in Slate .)
Or as Joshua Quittner writes in Time , "sometimes I got the feeling that Lewis so reveres his protagonist that he became his apologist."
All at once, the movie becomes a "conversion" melodrama--the kind in which an amoral, Bogartish protagonist is unable to ignore injustice and so throws in his lot with the oppressed.
--the heroine's best friend's smart and unusually poised big sister: "Just remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them," the sister advises the novel's protagonist.