The Town

Dante 2022-04-23 07:01:21

After watching so many independently produced art films, it is time for us to change our tastes, hehe.

This film is a crime film written, directed and acted by Ben Affleck.

I met Ben in "Pearl Harbor", and this time I was impressed by him. He is talented, has acting skills, tells the story well, and is definitely a model of excellent acting and directing.

The rhythm of the whole film is Zhang Youchi, and the characters are full and real, whether it is a loving and righteous accomplice, an unscrupulous FBI, or a policeman who is greedy for life and fear of death, a criminal full of motherly love, or a beautiful woman who falls in love with criminals, and The cruel old man, without any hypocrisy, interprets human nature just right.

Hollywood films, inevitably gunfights, car chases, explosions, but beautiful, clean shots, and attention to human nature, still let me see Ben's pursuit of art. Jeremy Renner was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the last Oscar for his outstanding acting skills.

Also, mention Ben Affleck, his Poker level is quite high, he has won the California championship, participated in the World Finals, and brought him hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money. Cattle!

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The Town quotes

  • Fergus 'Fergie' Colm: Cash is brought out and stacked fifteen minutes before the van does the pick up. That is when you hit. On Monday morning, before game stands in New York, sixty thousand beers, food, merchandise. Total call; three and a half million. Taking down the cathedral of Boston? Priceless.

  • [as Doug, Dez, Coughlin, and Gloansy have a small gathering, Frawley and Dino take photos of them from their car with a long-range camera]

    Dino Ciampa: [voice-over] Desmond Elden. Systems tech at Vericom. 22 years old.

    [Cuts to Frawley and Dino briefing their agents. They bring up Gloansy's images on the projector]

    Dino Ciampa: Albert Magloan. Only in Boston is a guy named "Albert Magloan".

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: Mr. Magloan never met a car he couldn't boost. The kind of talented individual who can start your Cherokee for you while you're still looking for your keys.

    [as he says that, a black-and-white flashback is shown of Gloansy breaking into a car. Coughlin's mugshot comes up on the projector]

    Dino Ciampa: James Coughlin. Father was killed in prison. Mother died HIV. Shot Brendan Leahey by the cemetery behind Mishawum when he was eighteen years old. Bled it out. When the judge asked him why he did it, he said, "I didn't like the kid." Served nine years for manslaughter.

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: These guys plan and execute with sophistication and discipline, and that is not our boy Coughlin.

    [produces photos of Doug]

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: We think the architect is this guy: Coughlin's best friend, Doug MacRay.

    Dino Ciampa: He lives in the same house, dated Coughlin's sister, who most likely mules to the Florist, who used to employ MacRay's father. You need a fucking venn diagram for these people.

    [Stifled chuckles come from the agents]

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: Mac, Senior got life for the Nashwood job which most of you should remember. Hijacked a bread truck up to New Hampshire. One guard saw his face, so, they executed both of them with their own weapons. I think Mac's legacy is now no A-car driver's allowed to leave the cab, even if there's a gun to his partner's head.

    Dino Ciampa: Young MacRay did eight months easy for going over the counter of a Bay Bank with a nail gun after he washed out from pro hockey.

    Agent Quinlan: Pro hockey?

    Dino Ciampa: Yeah. He was a big deal for a minute. Got drafted, went to camp but here's the shocker: he started makin' trouble, fightin' with guys.

    Agent Quinlan: Don't they pay you to fight in hockey?

    Dino Ciampa: Not the guys on your own team.

    [the other FBI agents laugh]

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: MacRay came home. Got into the family business. Same song: got into Oxycon. Hockey ship sailed with the narcotics. Now, we're a long way away from a grand jury here. And we'll never get 24 hour surveillance unless one of these idiots converts to Islam. So we build the case. All right, let's get to work.