Coincidental name

Elza 2022-03-21 09:01:12

I watched this film for the first time when I was in Shanghai. It was on my laptop and in the room I shared with my colleague. My English names and his English names are Richie and Frank, which is a coincidence. This was the most interesting thing I found at the time.
I watched it again yesterday. I like this kind of realistic film, the proficient acting skills, the happy revenge, the painful extraction of the evil forces, that's enough. Richie and Frank can change so much. It's hard to say that there is no corruption in the police station anymore. Richie can't stay anymore and simply helps Frank defend and reduce his sentence.
The gang is still there, and the drug dealers will never disappear. There is a reason for existence, or a reason. What is the reason? I don’t know if the film tells us, and I didn’t understand it.
Perhaps it is just a naked and exaggerated expression of this existence, the hypocrisy and truthfulness of social justice represented by the police, the charity and neglect of the gang, where is this contradictory and chaotic society heading? One Richie and one Frank cannot lead, but they will always change. As long as people have a reason to live, they will go on. In the end, Frank said, what do I need to survive is basically the most basic question for everyone, and it is also an important reason for the formation of social formation.

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Extended Reading
  • Weston 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    righteousness, justice

  • Aric 2022-03-23 09:01:12

    A good movie, but not great! Win Tun’s gangster movie, if it weren’t adapted from real people and real stories, Oscar hits bit the bullet and watched it, “The movie feels more like a sideball, from screenwriter, director to actor. , It seems that every one of them is out of state. Ridley Scott’s performance is substandard, only occasionally sparking sparks in some scenes, but there is no way to save the entire defeat."

American Gangster quotes

  • Frank Lucas: Let me ask you something. You think by putting me in jail, you're going to stop even one junkie from dying? Because you won't. If it isn't me, it'll be someone else. With me or without me, nothing's going to change.

    Detective Richie Roberts: Then that's the way it is.

  • Detective Richie Roberts: This is the newly formed Essex County narcotics squad, our mandate is to make major arrests, no street guys, we're looking for the suppliers and distributors, Heroin, Cocaine, Amphetamines, no grass under a thousand pounds, no powder under forty kilograms, any less than that we're going to waste our time, we're going to handling the big shipments, the big money, the big temptation