Very flat and academic

Alexandro 2022-04-23 07:01:01

Real plot, plain expression, complicated details. Don't talk about suspense and burden, this is not Director Ma's style. The reason why this film can be called a classic is all due to the director's lens language and the delicate performances of the veteran actors.
As always, the film is more than two hours long, and there are no montages, flashbacks and other fancy decorations. Director Ma just wants to show everyone that this guy named Hill is from his teens to his thirties. How to mix in the gang, fully show the real life of the Italian gang and what the so-called big guy is like. This kind of material is not new, and it is very difficult to come up with great colors. If you can't win by the plot like "Infernal Affairs", then you can only look at the skills of the director and the actors, and this is the best way for Director Ma to give full play to his professional expertise. stage. To be honest, as an ordinary spectator, these more than two hours are not very interesting, maybe watching it in film class is a better choice.

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  • Henry Hill: [Narrating] These are the guys Jimmy put together for what turned out to be the biggest heist in American history: the Lufthansa heist. Tommy and Carbone were going to grab the outside guard and make him get us in the front door, Frenchy and Joe Buddha had to round up the workers, Johnny Roastbeef had to keep them all tied up and away from the alarm, even Stacks Edwards got in on it, all he was supposed to do was steal the panel truck and afterwards compact it with a friend of ours in New Jersey. Only Morrie was driving us nuts - just because he set this up, he felt he could bust Jimmy's balls for an advance on the money we were going to steal. He didn't mean anything by it; it was just the way he was.

  • Jimmy Conway: [referring to Henry and Karen] She'll never divorce him. She'll kill him but she won't divorce him.