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Whatever you think of him, Johnny Depp acts here with grace and grit – Sydney Morning Herald
The actor plays a real-life magazine photographer who revealed a mercury poisoning scandal that caused deformities in children.
Thats where hes living, in a haze of alcohol, cynicism and painkillers, when a beautiful young Japanese translator named Aileen (Minami) demands that he rejoin the human race: you must come to Minamata, the people need you. His editor at Life, played with weary exasperation by Bill Nighy, agrees to the trip thinking it might be Smiths last.
Its an unconventional take on the western: an ageing gunfighter (with cameras instead of guns) arrives in a town full of trouble.
The film does not quite move…
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