Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Cutter's Way
Based on Newton Thornburg's novel "Cutter & Bone", Cutters Way stars Jeff Bridges as Richard Bone. After sleeping with a woman Richard Bone goes to visit his friend Alex Cutter, a Vietnam veteran who's lost the use of his leg, and arm, and his left eye. Along the way Bone sees a man dumping a body in the garbage and the mysterious culprit almost runs Bone over as he sped away. A couple days later Bone gets picked up and questioned by the police but is released after six hours. He also makes the paper as a witness to the body dump. This is when the jaded Cutter decides that the murderer is a rich man by the name of J.J. Cord (Stepehen Elliot). For a while, Bone doesn't agree with this theory. He thinks it's pure fantasy until they find Cutter's house burned down and his wife dead. They use a friends invitation to get into a party at Cord's mansion where Bone finally realizes it was Cord and takes matters into his own hands.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Cutter's Way
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 30% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- catching/stopping killer
Criminal enemy is...
- big business/rich guy
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) long, like a girl
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- bald
Body type
- fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Is this movie based on a
- book
