Review of Riders of Justice (2020) by Mauro_Lanari — 18 Jul 2021
(Mauro Lanari).
"Nothing Is Random". Kieślowski ("Blind Chance", 1981)? "The Butterfly Effect" (Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, 2004)? Much better "Accident" (Pou-Soi Cheang, 2009). In "Riders of Justice" Anders Thomas Jensen replicates the error that makes us believe he is a quality author: a series of human dramas, bereavements, somatic malformations, beauty imperfections, mental pathologies and nothing less the non-sense of existence between "chance and necessity" (Monod 1970), treated with a style that does not stop at self-irony but extends, irrepressible and out of control, to black comedy, violent crime, the wacky grotesque. Ingredients that should act as added values while they obtain the counter-effect of undermining its depth.
This review of Riders of Justice (2020) was written by Mauro_Lanari on 18 Jul 2021.
Riders of Justice has generally received very positive reviews.
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