I enjoyed this movie, but I wonder if Ed Harris and co. decided from the outset for the movie to be so goddamned dark. Granted, Pollock’s story is imbued with a heavy dose of tragedy, but the man also had a powerful creative spirit and artistic sense. It seems like his prolific years are captured in a mid-movie montage while the beginning and end of the movie fixate on his self-destruction and torment. Again, I grant that this is a theme in his life, and therefore is going to be present in the movie, but art seemed to come second to alcoholism in this film, and I wonder if that does Pollock (and the body of work he did leave behind) justice.

I live in Seattle, but I was able to catch Pollock on a CBC TV station that’s carried by my cable company. Broadcast television in Canada, mind you. It was uncut, four-letter words right and left. And you know what? The sun still came up the next morning. The FCC should take note.