"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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  • Vincent Hanna: [over the radio with Drucker, referring to Neil and his crew] What are you going to take them on? Breaking and entering? They didn't steal anything, don't you get it? It gets knocked back to some chicken shit misdemeanor they do six months and their out, no fucking way

  • Neil McCauley: [talking privately in the back of the diner] I'm looking for a driver that can handle scanners and a radio right now today, you remember the drill?

    Donald Breedan: Yeah man sure

    Neil McCauley: You cool?

    Donald Breedan: You know I'm cool

    Neil McCauley: One answer right now, yes or no?

    Donald Breedan: Yeah fuck it, you're on

    Neil McCauley: Out back in five