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Movie Review: &#039;Blue Ruin&#039; - Daily Bruin

Movie Review: &#8216;Blue Ruin&#8217;

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Few genres evoke sympathy for protagonists with insatiable bloodlust the way revenge movies do. Utterly unrealistic and dementedly satisfying, revenge films capture a simplistic desire for a world in which the weak successfully punish the powerful, preserving justice in the face of evil.

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Movie Review: ‘Blue Ruin’

By Asher Landau

April 25, 2014 12:55 a.m.