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THE STRANGER

«The Stranger» is another good example of the vi- police officer. This is an atmospheric film, and des-
brant Australian production in recent years. Joel pite its subject matter, it is not violent and always
Edgerton and Sean Harris play the lead roles in the wanders between the borderline of detective and the
Thomas M. Wright-directed film. Joel Edgerton was psychological weight of events on its protagonists.
one of the main driving forces behind this film, ins- The film is essentially underpinned by the two solid
pired by the book "The Sting: The Undercover Ope- performances of Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris, the
ration that Caught Daniel Morcombe's Killer" The latter of whom immerses his body and soul in his
narrative of this film focuses on the portrait of a character. Thomas M. Wright's directing has trans-
criminal and the massive manhunt that ensued in formed «The Stranger» into a dramatic thriller with
Australia. Viewers are thrown headlong into this a different and unusual tone, preferring to analyse
dramatic thriller, on the trail of the paedophile who its characters in a visually and emotionally intense
is trying to disappear from the map. His interme- atmosphere in the miraculous unravelling of a real
diary in the criminal organisation is an undercover crime. JORGE PINTO

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