Killing Them Softly (2012)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 97m
Director: Andrew Dominik
Cast: Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta
Synopsis:
A card game is hit for the second time by hoods out to frame the author of the original heist, and the Mob send in a minder to clean up.
Review:
From the opening frames we are clearly in the world of a director out to de-glamorise the milieu made popular by Tarantino and his imitators. The colour scheme is dirty grey, and the violence gruesomely banal, except where slow motion is used to lend a roadside hit a distancing aestheticism. More interesting than the generic dip into the swamp of underworld thuggery, however, is the clearly drawn parallel with contemporary American life, as we see Barack Obama fight his presidential campaign on TV screens throughout the movie. As in The Assassination of Jesse James, Dominik unpicks the flim-flam around the realisation of the American Dream for the majority of citizens, echoed by the increasingly impressive advocacy of Mr Pitt, as he utters the killer pay-off line: 'Now pay me my fucking money.' It's not a society, it's a business.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 97m
Director: Andrew Dominik
Cast: Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta
Synopsis:
A card game is hit for the second time by hoods out to frame the author of the original heist, and the Mob send in a minder to clean up.
Review:
From the opening frames we are clearly in the world of a director out to de-glamorise the milieu made popular by Tarantino and his imitators. The colour scheme is dirty grey, and the violence gruesomely banal, except where slow motion is used to lend a roadside hit a distancing aestheticism. More interesting than the generic dip into the swamp of underworld thuggery, however, is the clearly drawn parallel with contemporary American life, as we see Barack Obama fight his presidential campaign on TV screens throughout the movie. As in The Assassination of Jesse James, Dominik unpicks the flim-flam around the realisation of the American Dream for the majority of citizens, echoed by the increasingly impressive advocacy of Mr Pitt, as he utters the killer pay-off line: 'Now pay me my fucking money.' It's not a society, it's a business.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 97m
Director: Andrew Dominik
Cast: Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta
Synopsis:
A card game is hit for the second time by hoods out to frame the author of the original heist, and the Mob send in a minder to clean up.
Review:
From the opening frames we are clearly in the world of a director out to de-glamorise the milieu made popular by Tarantino and his imitators. The colour scheme is dirty grey, and the violence gruesomely banal, except where slow motion is used to lend a roadside hit a distancing aestheticism. More interesting than the generic dip into the swamp of underworld thuggery, however, is the clearly drawn parallel with contemporary American life, as we see Barack Obama fight his presidential campaign on TV screens throughout the movie. As in The Assassination of Jesse James, Dominik unpicks the flim-flam around the realisation of the American Dream for the majority of citizens, echoed by the increasingly impressive advocacy of Mr Pitt, as he utters the killer pay-off line: 'Now pay me my fucking money.' It's not a society, it's a business.