[The Thief in the City] The Town is another commercial operation after Ben Affleck's [Missing Baby] Gone Baby Gone, and it is worth mentioning that it is also a popular one in Boston. movies of that type. From the opening aerial view of the film to the speeding car chase in the alleys of the city, from the two protagonists, Doug MacRay (Ben A.) and James Coughlin (Jeremy Renner), taking the dude out in the middle of the night to clean up the unremarkable little villain, and then they fight by the park, from the heavy Boston accents of the characters to the English logo representing "Boston" that often appears on the chest of their clothes, and then to the TV screen of the Boston Red Sox's game passing by in the film, you can inadvertently expand your understanding of the city. Combined with the fact that the film's star and director, Ben Affleck, was originally a native of Boston, it's no wonder that Boston will be crowded on opening day.
While appreciating this movie, I believe that many people will also think of the [Pirates of Fire] Heat fifteen years ago. Although in comparison, [The Town] is not only in terms of cast, acting skills, professional quality of the characters in the play, story length, photography style, level of realism, and classic shots (such as the shootout and cafe dialogue in [Heat]), etc. It is slightly inferior to the former in all aspects, but personally, I am still willing to compare the two of them here. The reason is the same as in [Pirates of Fire]. Ben Affleck's work does not focus on the The focus is completely placed on the dazzling gunfights and action scenes, and more of it focuses on the lives and inner worlds of the characters, which is the same as the sadness brought about by the general trend at the end of the former, but the ending of [Heat] The focus is on the head-to-head confrontation between the two pros and cons and the mutual understanding and respect behind the scenes, and [City Robber] cleverly arranged it between a robber and the bank manager he had just hijacked. On the unrealistic love, even though Jeremy Renner's excellent performance in the film can be said to steal a lot of limelight, I believe that the theme of the film is still very clear and touching under the guidance and interpretation of Ben A.
As mentioned before, [The Town] is a two-hour standard-length movie, and [The Robbery] is nearly three hours. The length of the film determines that the director has to make different adjustments in the storytelling. The former needs to be as smooth as possible, and the latter needs to be thick and meticulous without procrastinating. Clearly, both get full marks on this point. In the film, we can see many plot elements inserted by Ben Affleck and his screenwriters to enrich the story and highlight the characters, such as Doug's father and Doug's own childhood shadows, such as Blake Lively's Krista Coughlin and Doug himself. Past conflicts, such as James's young nine-year sentence for avenging Doug's murder, can be said to have injected a lot of humanity into the overall story, and, more importantly, Ben A.'s excellent performance. Under the director, the connection between each link and scene in the film is very coherent and comfortable. This is the key to the movie's ability to finally move the audience through the hearts of the characters.
Finally, let's talk about a few small details and highlights in the film that impressed me, just for sharing. The first is the shootout at the end of the film. After Doug and James watched their two companions die one after another, they quickly began to change into their previous police uniforms to escape, and at that moment, just as the two of them successfully infiltrated the FBI, After talking with the Boston police, the camera was shown to one of the FBI agents, and he said at that time, "I killed this person lying on the ground." Doug glanced at him after hearing this sentence, but this scene No more text; followed by the "Go Fuck Yourself" note that Doug ended up stuffing in the window of Jon Hamm's FBI SA Adam Frawley's car, and the funny thing is that Adam handed it to his mate after seeing it and said, "This is for you." Then in the film, Doug and others wearing ghost masks dressed as nuns are on their way to commit crimes, and the slow motion shows a stunned little boy outside the car window, while inside the car window It is Doug under the mask holding a machine gun and looking at each other (beauty); then it is the scene where they escaped from the city to the North Bridge after successfully committing the crime. Just as Doug and his party of four got out of the car, wearing masks and holding a machine gun, they saw the man beside him. Well, a police car was stopped, and the policeman sitting in the police car also noticed them at this time, and the two sides also looked at each other for a while, but after that, no one paid attention to the other, and Doug and others immediately changed cars and left; the last one was back in the shootout. After James was shot and had no way to escape, he hid behind a trash can across the road, and at that moment, he found an unfinished discarded drink on the ground, so he started He picked it up immediately and sucked at the straw with all his might, and right after that, he chose to rush out with two guns in hand. over.
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