The word choices used in Bullet in the Brain are supposed to shock you, wake and shake you up while reading. They are robust words used to grab your attention. The dialogue could be from any C movie found on late night television. Just when you are about to write the short story off you realize that you can't stop reading because you need to finish it. The short story has done it's job by pulling you into it's bad plot. When I say bad plot I mean overly cliched plot. The dialogue of the supposed bad guys is cliched but enough so that you believe you know what the writer was hoping to accomplish by doing so. The writer maybe leading you to ask "why"? Or, how is this story different, what makes it different?
Though I knew that Anders actions were going to get him in trouble, I never thought that the bad guys was actually going to shot him. I thought that perhaps he would just knock him out like in a lot of the bank robbery scenes found on television. Rarely do hostages actually get killed. I assume that is how the writer strayed away from the assumed action or cliche.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
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