Bloody Gangster S05: It's getting darker and more incomprehensible

Shanon 2022-04-19 09:02:53

It's still the same photography, the same soundtrack, and the same performance, and it's still the same unique and self-contained tone. If the previous seasons had a bit of a gangster epic temperament, this season is becoming a character psychological drama with a simpler and more straightforward plot and scale, but a more niche atmosphere and background. Long paragraphs of obscure dialogue and stream-of-consciousness-like empty shots, the lonely and cramped figure in the overhead shot from God’s perspective, the countless hallucinations and the sound of rapid breathing, have no intention of narrating, but focus on excavating in the bright and the dark. The painful entanglement and desperate struggle of human nature at the dark junction. Off-screen, we watched Tommy, who was destined to feel guilty, destined to wander, and destined to be injured, to bear the burden that could not be lifted, unable to stop and helpless, and walked into the black vortex of destiny together.

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Black Tuesday quotes

  • Thomas Shelby: If there were a snap election in this house today, I wouldn't win it. Not if I were running against the devil himself.

  • Thomas Shelby: Did Arthur explain?

    Charles Shelby: He said it's God's will. But you're not God.

    Charles Shelby: [Walks away]

    Thomas Shelby: No, I'm not God. Not yet.