The Pledge (2001)
Directed by Sean Penn
A police chief, about to retire, pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
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Yoo Ah-in’s Jongsu is in a state of crippling inaction that with each mounting clue echoed Jack Nicholson’s tremendous performance in “The Pledge.”
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Simply hit YouTube and search for Rourke's cameo scene in Sean Penn's 2001 film The Pledge , one of the rare occasions around the turn of the century when he managed to get hired in any capacity.
As Sir Michael Caine's character explains during the opening sequence, the first of the picture's numerous literal and figurative bits of sleight-of-hand, there are three acts to a magic trick: "The Pledge", where you're shown something seemingly ordinary, "The Turn", where that ordinary something does something extraordinary, and finally "The Prestige", where things twist further onto themselves and the extent of the illusion is fully revealed.
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Jack Nicholson portrayed this sort of obsession much better in last year’s The Pledge.
(The uncertainty, the disintegrating cop hero and the settings call to mind Sean Penn's movie "The Pledge.")