The Rule of Wrist

The Rule of Wrist

Troy Duffy’s The Boondock Saints has recently become an underground cult

classic among the youth of the world. The Boondock Saints shows numerous portrayals

of numerous cultures here in America. The Boondock Saints illustrates, that for one to do

good, they don’t always need to be classified as a “good guy” or “hero”.

Troy Duffy’s 1999 film The Boondock Saints, tells a story of two Irish-Bostonian

brothers (Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus). One day, by accident, the two boy

kill two Russian mobsters and get away with their guns and money. They turn

themselves into the cops claiming that it was self defence, which it was. This incident is

accidently leaked to the public and the public and press starts to refer to them as “Angels”

and “Saints” (ergo Boondock Saints). The city of Boston gives them praise because they

consider the brothers to be “cleaning up the city” of evil. The brother then reach a sort of

opifany, which makes them come to the job of “God’s Hitmen”, doing the lords work.

They then make it their duty to rid the city of all evil and corruption, such as gangs, drug

dealers, pimps, and the mob syndicate. The brothers believe that they have been chosen

by God to bring vengeance and righteous anger upon the evil of the city of Boston.

Early in the movie we meet the homosexual F.B.I. agent Paul Smecker (Willem

Dafoe). He works in the Organized Crime Task Force of the burreu. He is first brought

into the movie just to investigate the first murder, the one of the two Russian mobsters.

But his case begins to get thicker and thicker as the story goes on. The murders of the

brothers begin to pile up and he is stuck with trying to decide whether he should stop

them or not.

The film does show some stereotypical aspects of all the cultures in the movie,

mainly