Dark Deeds In Texas
This is just the entry gate to Sayles’s epic. As in his 1991 “City of Hope,” Sayles weaves a dense, novelistic fabric that follows at least 10 major characters and scads of vividly evoked minor parts, revealing with an almost Dickensian largesse the interconnections that bind and divide this racially and ethnically fraught town. Thedirector slides startlingly into his flashbacks, mixing past and present as if erasing the distinction between the two....