Le Cercle rouge, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970 (red circle) A convict released after serving his sentence met a fugitive, and escaped to Paris all the way through the checkpoint. A former police sniper was brought in to plan and execute a jewellery robbery. case. As a result, the black market had a huge amount of stolen goods and it was difficult to take action. The police took the opportunity to use the informant to set up traps. Looking back, the whole plot is quite simple, and the ending is the criminal's death and the police's victory. For a crime film, the pace of this film is surprisingly slow. For more than two hours, the details were laid out very carefully; during the process of robbing the jewelry store for half an hour, there was no dialogue. The main goal of the director is not to show you a turning point and a hot spot every few minutes, but to capture the composition in each shot to the perfection: escape from the forest with the nose of the police dog, unwilling the former police officer to appear drunk at home The illusion saw all kinds of animals crawling on the bed, overlooking the Vendôme square from the Ottoman roof under the night...All the venues were fully and perfectly displayed in dark or black. Watching this film is also to look at the face: Alain Delon, the core character of the criminal gang, is so handsome that he feels very pitiful when he finally falls into the trap of the police; the old detective played by Bourvil every time he goes home to feed the cat. The posture is the only soft place in this film; Yves Montant played an unwilling sniper who turned to crime. He came out to commit a crime in order to get out of a life of depression and alcoholism. He played a key role in the success of the robbery but didn’t want to take a penny. Died under the gun of a former police school classmate... Whether it is a crime or a case, there is almost no passion in it. Everyone is very cold, just like the weather and scenery in the film. In short, this is a high-cold crime film, or a crime film in Paris.
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