What’s Aged the Best?
Barney’s setup, the anagram, Jeff’s pathetic obsession, smoking as instant trauma shorthand, the villain name, early Bullock and Sutherland, and odd relationship lines
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- Barney’s craziness is established before the movie shifts into Diane and Jeff’s story. — Bill Simmons
- Diane Shaver is identified as an anagram of “she vanished.” — Bill Simmons
- Jeff’s attack on Rita for leaving makes his pathetic obsession unusually vivid. — Bill Simmons
- Kiefer lighting a cigarette as soon as Diane disappears is praised as compact trauma shorthand. — Bill Simmons
- Barney Cousins is called an excellent villain name. — Bill Simmons
- The film captures Sandra Bullock immediately before Speed and Kiefer Sutherland before his later action-star identity. — Bill Simmons
- Nancy Travis’s line about no secrets “in the heart or on the lips” is preserved as memorably strange. — Bill Simmons