This movie, produced by Netflix, tells the story of the police chasing the legendary gangsters Bonnie and Clyde from different perspectives in "The Male and Female Thief". Unlike the 1967 romantic road thief film, Bonnie and Clyde are both profiled in "Robbers". The two retired mounted police officers, Frank and Maney, dominate the scene. The story is also about the two of them. Perspective. At the beginning of the film, there is a tribute to the West. The road, the car, the beautiful shoes of the woman, the rifle in the hands of the prison guard riding on the horse, and the quiet atmosphere is immediately broken. The story started from this robbery, and then the background of the whole story was explained in a straightforward manner: the male and female robbers were arrogant and active, and the modern police were helpless. The retired Texas Mounted Police was pulled back to the stage and asked to pursue Bonnie and Bonnie. The Barrow gang formed by Clyde. The story afterwards is a bit boring, but more stable and intriguing. Opposing the two retired Mounted Police is not only the cunning and arrogant bandits, but also the people who support the bandits, and the FBI, who has high-tech ballistic analysis, eavesdropping, and reconnaissance capabilities that despise them. But with the hunter’s intuition and experience, he restored Bonnie and Clyde’s growth environment, explored the grass, footprints, cigarette cases, wine bottles, and dealt with inmates, informants, and family members, and finally mastered the whereabouts of the Barrow Gang. Later, the story is the same as the real event and the story in "The Male and Female Thief", Frank and Maney and four other police surrounded Bonnie and Clyde, the latter both died under 130 bullets.
As mentioned earlier, although the film is long, gentle and slightly dull, it is steady and intriguing, that is, it shows the other side of the story of this famous male and female robber. Regarding Bonnie and Clyde, although the film has always been presented in a symbolic profile, it is not obscure. It did not glorify their crimes poetically, nor did it deliberately demonize them. Through the display of the economic background of the Great Depression, the words of supporters, the descriptions of childhood friends, and the story of Clyde told by Clyde’s father, it roughly restores how they turned from ordinary people to robbers; also used twice The overhead shot of the police being killed shows how they are desperadoes today. As Frank said to Clyde's father: Maybe your child was not born with a dark soul, but he is now. As evaluated by inmates in reality, from boy scouts to rattlesnakes. Some stories, in the eyes of some people, are romantic and passionate, in the eyes of some people, they are running away in embarrassment. In the real story, Bonnie and Clyde robbed the rich, but they also killed the innocent. In addition to the bank, they robbed shops and gas stations. The killing originated in a fire accident, but after that it was unscrupulous. The society is indeed dilapidated, and the fate is indeed unfair, but "these stories have never had one ending." In the film, it tells the story of a bandit gang that shot and killed 60 people overnight with Frank. One is to explain the 130 rounds of bullets at the end, and the other is to say that in these crazy years, the righteous side is like a sinful one. One side is not pure. The gloom of the same root and the same root grows into two sides of Batman and Joker.
The most interesting part of the film is its depiction of the idolization of criminals. The dilapidated economy has crushed the people, and people need a pillar in their psychology. Crazy to madness, and depravity to depravity, Bonnie and Clyde’s violent actions vented the dissatisfaction and hostility of the people at the bottom to capital, the chaotic social system, and the injustice of life. They became the heroes of everyone, and the fashionable Bonnie, who loves to dress up, loves to take pictures, and writes poetry, emphasizes the romance in it. The play has repeatedly shown Frank and Many's incomprehension and dislike of this crazy phenomenon. Many people came to watch Bonnie and Clyde after their deaths. Their fans frantically snatched their objects as a memorial, and some even tried to cut off Clyde's ears. It is difficult for people to understand and accept that these crazy actions are out of love. In this crazy social environment, a crazy pathology is derived. In the face of life’s inability to resist, people placed their trust on Bonnie and Clyde, and abstracted the spiritual core of "resistance" from them. Under Payne's lens, it is difficult to get away from looking at this obsession with violent crime objectively, but the steady and dull "Robber" can.
It can be said that "Robber" is the B side of "Robbery" and the real life behind the creation of the romantic robber. How fierce the waves of "Robber" are, "Robber" is so steady and heavy. The old-fashioned western highway chasing murderers, the story of a tough guy under the opposition of good and evil, deconstructs a legend in an era of madness.
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