"The Line of Fire": Restoring the humanity of robbers, love is equal to everyone

Dejon 2022-04-19 09:01:02



The film is two and a half hours long. This is still an era of using BB machines. I almost fell asleep several times. It was only later that I learned that this film was filmed in 1995, the same era as police and bandit films in Hong Kong, China. The film is about a group of robbers robbing a bank. The robbers also have families. They have their own life trajectories. They all have their own human flaws. Some drink and some are addicted to gambling. They are gangsters. Before they robbery, they will have precise plans. They have principles not to kill people. Some people do not follow the rules, and infighting occurs. The cops who chased them also had an incomplete family, and the wife openly cheated and made breakfast for other men. Everyone lived so real, so difficult, and so incompatible, and finally they were pulled back to the origin of their lives by their respective fates. The robbers lost their lives, and the police family gained the family's tolerance because of their daughter's suicide.

A friend of mine called someone else's brother sorted out several stories of the main characters in the film and weaved them into a film review with the theme of "Los Angeles Love Story", which is simple and clear, and the film is charming and clapping. Love does not only exist among robbers, love lives in every heart, love may also be lost because of a just cause, love can also be born because of sin, equal and true.

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  • Esta 2021-10-20 18:58:49

    Michael Mann’s night scenes are really amazing, and there is a reason to be selected as the textbook (now HD photography can help him even more). The ten-minute street shootout was so awesome, I just kneel down, and I've seen the most awkward bank grabbing paragraph so far. Not to mention how handsome the two uncles are, and so are Fang Jimo

  • Kayleigh 2021-10-20 18:59:12

    It's not difficult to shoot a good shootout, but it's difficult to show complex humanity at the same time. Great, sympathize with the robber in the end.

Heat quotes

  • Vincent Hanna: [to Casals, after questioning Hugh Benny and offering her an immunity from prosecution deal to Charlene] Neal is still here I can feel it

    Detective Casals: for how long?

    Vincent Hanna: seven, eight hours max

  • Eady: [referring to the bank robbery she saw on the news] what'd you do? That was you?

    Neil McCauley: that's what I don't do. I don't sell metals, it would've been ok, flight out after, now it's "jammed" we gotta go together

    Eady: [terrified and shocked, referring to Donald and Michael] those other people were with you?