a a habit i always like to read through the hat it review of any give movie . especially one that i would want to comment on . and it not so much a point counterpoint sorta deal while i just like to see what people say on the flipside . however and i do want to address one thing . many people that hat it call it and to paraphrase and beautiful and but shallow and some even go so far a to say that norm desire yet inability to help his brother be a mundane plot and at best . i would like to disagree . a a brother of a sibling who have a similar dysfunction and i can relate . daily and you see them abuse themselves and know only that their current path will inevitably lead them to self destruction . and it not about the specific of what they do when while how or why paul decide to take up gamble and associate with questionable folk while it really more how they be wire . on one hand and they be veritable genius and and on the other and painfully self destructive ( it a lot like people like howard hughes  the same force which drive them be the same force which tear them apart ) and all the while you see this and you know this and and what bad and you realize you can not do a damn thing about it . for norman maclean and a river run through it be probably a way to find an answer to why the tragedy have to occur and and who be to blame . in the end and no one be and and often and there be no why . but it take a great deal of personal anguish to truly come to this realization . sometimes it take a lifetime . and sometimes it never come at all .