Prison riots in Attica in 1971 resulted from torture and 43 deaths. The autopsy report indicated that all died by gunshots, and only the police had guns at the time. As of 2020, it remains the worst prison riot since the founding of the United States.
The Vietnam War is still not over, and the domestic anti-war movement in the United States is fierce.
The domestic economic situation in the United States was bleak, and inflation was relatively mild, but the situation was very serious at the time. Production is down, the unemployment rate of 6% is close to the Great Depression, and the cost of living has risen by 25% in 5 years. Compared with the 1960s, major crimes have increased by 176%, while the detection rate is only 20%.
The film is based on a true robbery in 1972.
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video content
- robbery
- confrontation
- captured
plot analysis
- Bank employee
- police
- same-sex couple
- wife
- Mother
- Sonny's Dilemma
- will
robbery part 1
The first 17 minutes.
Sonny, Shar, and Steve plan to rob the bank while they're off, and their plan is simple.
Know the smear monitor, know the alarm in the vault, know the alarm at the counter, know the money with the trace mark, know that the register needs to be destroyed in order to use the cash check, the bank robbery that appears to be well-prepared happens because it is not well-prepared All kinds of emergencies, so it became a comedy.
The robbery was exposed as the smoke from the burning register caught the attention of the clerk on the opposite side.
A weak man who doesn't want to hurt others starts a marathon robbery.
The second part of the confrontation
Police calls, accompanied by sirens, and the confrontation began.
The chaotic police system, the crowd watching the lively, a farce.
The bank manager complained to Sonny why he didn't flee in time. Their pay is so low that it's not worth dying for, as long as the robbers get out of the bank they're safe.
Sophia, the foreman at the counter, complained to Sonny that he was just on a whim. It's a fact that Sonny only planned the successful part of the heist.
Sonny thought it was Detective Moretti's phone call just enough to vent, but it turned out to be the hostage Jenny's husband, and Sonny told them to talk.
Shal was ready to shoot a hostage under special circumstances, and all he got was Sonny's consolation and no clear response.
Sonny started trying to plan their situation, blocking the back door first. (Wiki English version is 43 people)
Sunny faced the cops with their guns surrounded by layers and strongly urged them to withdraw their guns. Worrying that he was shot, he mentioned the riots in Attica. He got a strong response from the crowd, and he realized his influence on the crowd. Like a superstar in the center of the stage. The police chose to back off.
Spacious house, meaningless decorations and lamps, this is Sonny's parents' home. The father complained about the mother, while the younger sister watched the TV coverage of the robbery with great interest.
After all the troubles since the robbery were thrown behind him, this was the first time he experienced satisfaction. Sonny also put forward his own insights and needs when facing the TV interview. The conversation with the TV host gained the empathy of the bank staff .
Shal once again emphasized the consensus between the two, either disappearing, or desperately. Sonny proposed an escape plan to fly abroad with the hostages, and let the hostages call home to separate.
Because of the chaotic management of the police, Sonny was beaten by his hostage boyfriend when he went out to negotiate, indicating that this was a robbery and not a show. Sonny asks for a plane, asks to see "wife".
The wife, who refused to go to the scene, lives in an apartment and takes care of two children by herself.
Check the air conditioner to take care of the hostages. He finds that the back door is being broken into, he is fooled, and he fires the first shot of the whole movie, and everything is tense again.
In the face of the manager's complaint, Sonny's response shows his situation in this robbery, he has to think about everyone, which is his normal.
Taking advantage of the pizza delivery, Sonny took the marked money that was useless for the robbers and stirred up the crowd, he knew what to expect.
Sonny's designated "wife" appears, and more information about Sonny emerges.
The third part is captured
74 minutes, before the blackout, which is a very interesting shot. Sonny faced his vassals like a king, the clerks surrounded him, the older ones trying to make themselves comfortable, and the younger girls discussing the country they were fleeing to. Sophia, the foreman, stood and took care of her girls as she promised, the manager knew that Sonny was talking empty words, pacing back and forth trying to protect his staff, and Shar was obviously a companion, but was left in the farthest corner.
When everyone was exhausted, the FBI appeared.
When Sonny's sexuality is exposed, he loses his influence over the crowd; when Moretti loses command, Sonny loses his influence over the police, and he faces a downgrade; when the bank is cut off At that time, Sonny lost his comfort to the staff.
Sonny is left with himself, Shal's trust and hostages. Compared to during the day, Sonny on the Internet was tired and restless, and his mind was spinning too slowly.
FBI Serden asked him to visit the bank. Knowing that Sonny is bisexual, the crowd booed as Sonny checked Shadden's body, and Sonny responded upon request. Ending the conversation with Shal, Sharden hints that Sonny will keep him but betray Shal. With command taken away and Inspector Moretti eating across the street, Sonny's happy period is over. Sonny is about to face the grim reality of him, and he's been strangled because he doesn't intend to hurt the hostages. Facing Shal's question, Sonny didn't tell Shal the truth, which was a sign of betrayal.
Sonny calls with his same-sex partner, Leon, and is asked to clear Leon of suspicion, and is betrayed.
Sonny and his wife called him and were filled with a bucket of bullshit, first blaming herself, then just repeating what she had said to the police.
For the health of the manager, I am willing to let him go first. And the manager's rant made him laugh, he was just too weak to come to this point.
Gay groups also rushed to the scene in solidarity.
The mother makes an unexpected appearance, an informative but unhelpful conversation, and she is just a tool for the FBI to disrupt him. Shaden spread his hands to hint for 10 minutes, and Sonny nodded tacitly to his satisfaction.
Sonny begins to make a will, the climax of the film.
When the transporter arrives at the airport, Sonny asks the original driver, the black man, to continue to be the driver, but the driver's abnormal reaction (the FBI's multiple eye confirmations, the joy of the pizza delivery staff, and the huge commission but refusal) makes him suspicious. After checking with the FBI, he confirmed that the black man was also the FBI, so he accepted the white man as the driver. He can directly reject the two of them.
Sonny keeps comforting Shal, even after getting in the car. Shal was nervous, and although the army's training had made him instinctively aim his gun at the driver many times, he shouldn't have raised the muzzle. Perhaps through the military and prison, he was too used to taking orders from others.
Sunny, who was detained on the front hood, looked at the hostages hugging and comforting each other, showing a hint of joy, and seeing the remains of Shar in front of him, he realized his failure, which was accompanied by a huge emptiness.
He has nothing left.
bank staff
Swear words are the easiest to learn in language, and everyone's acceptance of it is also different, which helps a lot in shaping the character image.
Sophia was warned by Sophia for using the S word Sonny.
Sonny was cut off because of the F-word.
The manager apologised to the ladies for using the F word for himself. He doesn't allow himself to use that word, but doesn't care if Sonny uses it.
Jenny, who is already a mother, will not repeat that word.
Marianne whispered in other people's ears, and the Hispanic Maria said it out loud.
Edna takes the old-fashioned Christian stance.
How the staff reacted when Sonny scolded the TV host.
How the staff reacted when Sonny's bisexuality was revealed.
The girl who takes a long break in the toilet, Maria, who does not shy away from the letter F, is also a devout Christian. She prayed with a rosary in her hand all the time. After getting out of the car, she promised to pray for others and gave the rosary to Shal. to soothe his unease before getting on the plane. Her boyfriend was the one who beat up Sonny.
Jenny, who was hiding under the table, received a call from her husband because she had not yet returned home, and her husband wanted to know when she would be able to return home when he knew that she had been kidnapped (doubtful behavior). The husband didn't know how to cook or how to comfort the child. Jenny, who was nervous in the car, hummed subconsciously, as if a mother was comforting her child, maybe she was thinking of her.
After knowing that Sonny wouldn't shoot her, Marianne slowly became a happy bird. She stood behind Sonny and waved to the camera, harassing the harasser who called, learning how to use it. Guns, suggested going to Holland, dancing with Maria, and when she finally got in the car, she was the only one who was excited.
The final departure, they were more horrified by the fact that someone had been shot, before realizing they had been rescued, the pressure released, and perhaps a hint of sadness for the robbers.
police
After such a long delay, the police are responsible for the burden on the hostages, because their management is too chaotic. And their representative, Inspector Moretti, is the opposite of Sonny.
The first question Sardon asked when he inspected the scene was why he did not wait for the robbers to leave the bank before arresting them, which Moretti admitted was a mistake because he ignored the possibility of hostages.
The reporter easily broke through, but he did not drive away, and even followed the reporter when he left several doors in the picture below.
The lack of restraint on subordinates can be manifested in many ways: requiring the gunmen to go to the roof and they are on the escape ladder; any action of the subordinates does not require his approval, not even the back door entry without his permission; requiring the police officers to back away and put away their guns , the effect is also procrastination; so many police forces, most of which are idle, it is ridiculous that Sonny was attacked at the bank gate; the crowd and chaos in the barber shop at the temporary command post; even when leaving, FBI Serden asked to be on the road There can be no trouble, and it turns out that trouble arises.
The TV station seemed to know Inspector Moretti's past experience very well, and the questions were simple and direct.
In the case of knowing that Sonny will not shoot, there is no good progress for a long time.
Moretti stopped talking after the power outage, and Sonny's chances of success were gone.
same-sex couple lyon
A poor man, someone Sonny loved.
Leon wants to help himself and wants to get married, so Sonny and him have a big wedding ceremony in the church.
After the wedding, Leon and others ran away from the marriage and wanted to undergo sex-change surgery on the advice of the doctor. Sonny tried to raise money, but the surgery was too expensive.
When Leon found the surgery hopeless, he attempted suicide.
Sonny comforts him, and later intends to die with him.
The thought of sacrificing love frightened Leon, he wanted to escape Sonny, he escaped into a mental hospital.
Now, Leon doesn't love Sonny.
This fits with the theme song "Amoreena", a man who misses his past lover.
wife Angie
A poor woman, Sonny's legal wife.
For various reasons, the marriage is cracked, and Sonny's mother is also fanning the flames.
Sonny married a man again, became melancholy and violent, and the rift deepened.
Angie is afraid of Sonny, and now, she doesn't love him.
Mother
Hypocritical woman.
Dissatisfied with Sonny's wife Angie, who attended the wedding of his son and man, but he was dissatisfied with Sonny's bisexuality, and always wanted to make Sonny a different person from now.
She loves him in a way she identifies with.
Compared to the scene where my mother appeared, I think she dressed up before she came to see Sonny, in order to look good on TV, and the script confirmed my guess.
"In one glimpse, the forgotten mother of Sonny in the barbershop looks out the window alone."
If I told you that the director of this film had a work called "Twelve Angry Men" before this film, would you smile? ?
Sonny's Dilemma
The US asked him to go to Vietnam and made various promises, so he went. After being demobilized, because he did not join the labor union and did not have a good job, he chose to work as a bank counter and could not support his family.
Mother asked to live in a good house, and he paid the rent for them. The mother is dissatisfied with her wife and dissatisfied with her own sexuality.
He and his wife live in an apartment, and their two children are on welfare. My wife has been nagging like a repeater, saying one sentence can get ten sentences, and then she is said to be unable to communicate.
The same-sex couple wanted to marry him, he married, and the other party disappeared after the wedding. When I found it again, I said I was short of money for sex reassignment surgery. The money was his motive for robbing the bank.
They kept stressing to the police what kind of person Sonny was, stressing to Sonny that the robbery was not his behavior, and they couldn't focus on Sonny's current situation. He was robbing and he might die.
Sonny's life has been demanded, and even when Sonny's bisexuality was revealed on TV, Shar asked Sonny to correct his sexuality on TV.
He is a man who wants to please everyone, a weak man.
In fact, this robbery was doomed to fail from the beginning, because of the weak character of the protagonist. If Sonny was the assistant and Shal was the executor, a vicious man, the story would be completely different. The foreman at the counter would not dare to talk back or go to the toilet, which would save a lot of time, and they might be able to escape. Even when the clerk on the other side came to check, they actually got all the money in the bank and could directly hold or shoot the other party and run away.
Sonny's Will
In Sonny's will, he wrote about his love for his same-sex couple and the money he left; about his love for his wife and about the money he left for her; about his expectations for his children; Mother couldn't understand herself and her words and deeds and begged for forgiveness from her mother; she wrote to implement the free military funeral that she got for joining the army, and wanted to get due respect.
He forgave them and the country.
He betrayed the trust of Shar, who was begging for death, but Shaar has been asking for clarification of his sexual orientation, so the guilt will be lessened.
Sonny will live on.
It's a good ending.
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