I just saw the film a few minutes ago and am still living in it - if one can say that. Matt Dillion was inspired. There was one moment, right before he strangles a guy at the racetrack, where he does a double take and looks exactly like his brother Kevin. So it must be genetic, their body action. Bukowski has never been my favorite writer. My dad was a street-guy, hanging out at bars and the like, so his writing is a bit too like my real life, for my taste...but it is the way it is and there was not one fake moment in it. The part with Marisa Tomei was very very good. Lily Taylor was exactly right...and their life together was precisely as seedy as the life of such people is. Go see it while it is still on the big screen and then write your own report. I think Matt looks exactly as he should for this part.
