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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  • Anais 2022-04-23 07:01:56

    Talking rubbish movie, fuck to fuck, pretty boring

  • Richard 2022-04-23 07:01:56

    I appreciate this kind of film, gangsters in financial crisis, preachy? No, the action gunfight is not to mention, but these two points are done very well. If you change the details, the place where you should be slapped must be more than ten minutes, and the place where you should be cool will stop, good!

Killing Them Softly quotes

  • Driver: They told me when they heard that if Dillon wasn't available that I was supposed to talk to the fella he sent. Is that you?

    Jackie Cogan: I don't see nobody else who might be here to meet you. Do you?

  • Russell: [to Frankie] Then after we go over to Orlando. We're gonna burn the car. So Kenny sticks a rag in the gas tank and he lights it off.

    Kenny Gill: [flashback to when they're going to burn the car] Do be such a-Russell, you're a fucking pussy. I've done it a million fucking times.

    [lights the rag with a lighter]

    Kenny Gill: It's fine. It goes up like a fuckin bonfire. You'll love it.

    [he walks away towards the back of the car and faces it from a few yards away. The rag's flame is spreading]

    Kenny Gill: See?

    [Kenny looks at Russell and back at the car. They're both watching the car and the flame spread on the rag. The car blows up and the impact makes it instantly reverse towards Kenny. Kenny topples over on the road and is rolling around in pain. Russell starts laughing hysterically]

    Kenny Gill: Ah fuck!

    Russell: [scene goes back to Russell telling the story to Frankie] Kenny, he didn't have no eyebrows left, not much hair, and no sense of humor either.