THE LATEST FROM GLENN

I enjoyed seeing Martin Scorsese get a Best Director award at last night's Golden Globes, and I particularly enjoyed his acceptance speech, in which he mentioned Paths of Glory and about three other pictures (he was expressing appreciation to the Hollywood Foreign Press for their support of his efforts in film restoration) before getting to the one he himself was being awarded for.

The Departed gets a lot of guff from certain critics and bloggers on account of its final shot, which features the scurrying of a live rat. Given that the film's prior two-hours-plus have been about metaphoric rats and the carnage they leave behind, some people are a little het up by what they see as a particularly flippant joke. (I wasn't bothered by it myself, and in fact, the "plausible" in me figured that the rat was left in the scene by the last living character we see in the film, as a warning of sorts.) I wonder what such sensitive souls make of the final line of Fritz Lang's 1953 classic The Big Heat.

Those of you who haven't seen The Big Heat should stop reading this, go out and rent it or better still buy it, watch it immediately, and then come back.

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