Killing Them Softly (2012)

Monique 2021-11-22 18:54:21

A dark and frustrating movie.

This film is very fine and wonderful in terms of film techniques. The scenes, music, editing and voice-overs and murder scenes attract suspense and scheduling, plus low-key and gorgeous slow-motion violent scenes. The political allegory attempt of the script is very obvious, and it is obvious that it makes people feel too forceful, but the characters and the dialogue themselves are actually not so easy to read their subtopics, so the director directly interspersed the political speech and the film in the film instead. Is it a simplified approach?

It’s one thing that you don’t understand the plot metaphor, but in contrast to Obama’s victory in 2008, the joyous moment of the American dream, "Killing Action" deliberately emphasized the time and space at the time, but it took a completely opposite attitude and point of view. To show the United States, a country that is darker, more barren, or more real, the contrast is really choking.

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  • Josianne 2022-04-22 07:01:19

    This is clearly a political satire. Other than that, I really don't know what I'm doing.

  • Effie 2022-04-20 09:01:40

    This slaughter is indeed gentle enough, and it kills people with a large-scale chatter-like conversation! Some of the slow motion and soundtrack are quite distinctive, and the way of the script is also quite interesting. Some of the characters are very full and interesting. On the contrary, Pitt's characters seem to be connected in series, and some are uncharacteristic and unattractive. Of course, this kind of film that is neither soft nor hard, neither long nor short will be dragged to death by the lines and suffocated to death.

Killing Them Softly quotes

  • Jackie Cogan: Very few guys know me

  • Jackie Cogan: They cry, they plead, they beg, they piss themselves, they cry for their mothers. It gets embarrassing. I like to kill 'em softly. From a distance