Writer’s Choice Intro

The paper that I am most proud of during the quarter, “Kicking up Dust”, was our second “Movie Talk” assignment (Intermission #2) that helped us explore what it means to “cross boundaries” that our societies have put in place. In the movie Lone Star, Sam Deeds plays a sheriff in a small boarder town in Texas who ironically breaks local traditions by upholding the law. The regulations and established “rules” in this small town are threatened as Sam prudently uncovers a forty-five year old murder mystery kept secret by the local authorities, “A whodunit murder mystery with a clash of cultures and times.”. Again, I feel really proud of my analysis of this film because of the fact that I established very clearly how Sam Deeds fit’s the role of an “outsider” by executing his duty in this clannish town.