Boston fury

A.O. Scott's beef with bad imitations of Boston accents continues.  In related news, a woman from Brooklyn struck up a conversation with me at the sandwich shop on Tuesday and hearing her voice (and seeing her sporting a full-length fur coat, a rare article in these parts but fairly common in my homeland) threw me into a homesick funk from which I have still not fully recovered. So it really matters!


"Mr. DiCaprio, having grown perhaps overly fond of his accent from “The Departed,”brings it along for the ride, and it spreads through the movie like a contagious disease. Teddy’s partner (pahtnah), Chuck Aule, played by Mark (Mahk) Ruffalo, is supposed to be from the Pacific Northwest but he seems to have left all his R’s back in Seattle."


NYTimes: Shutter Island review