Bank robbery is a familiar theme in Hollywood commercial films, but to come up with something new and surprise the audience, it depends on the skill of the screenwriter and director. As far as this film is concerned, he just met the above conditions, an extraordinary bank robbery, an interesting intellectual struggle, and a Samsung cat-and-mouse game.
What needs to be mentioned is the name of the film "The Insider". I think this name is very good. The film revolves around an extraordinary bank robbery. The relationship between the characters is deep and more and more people are involved. What makes people ponder is that this is a bank robbery with no life, no money missing, and no bullet fired. The story is complicated and fascinating. Around this robbery, the hostages faced the psychological pressure of their lives, the bankers faced the embarrassing situation of their privacy being exposed, and the police faced the dilemma that they had to rescue the hostages and catch the robbers, but were unable to do anything. They were hired to help. The banker solves the problem and the female lawyer has to deal with the police, robbers and bankers, and the robbers are faced with the problem of how to complete the task without being caught by the police; everyone faces a situation. , how to break the "game" is what everyone needs to solve, which is the meaning of "insider". The title is very appropriate for the content of the film.
Maybe it's because of the restlessness factor in my heart. Whenever I see this type of movie, I'm always secretly happy that the robbers are playing around with the police uncles, and I always hope that they can escape the police's pursuit smoothly and openly.
In this film, the gang leader Dalton's layout is extremely ingenious. In the whole robbery, he not only destroys the surveillance system and controls the hostages according to the usual robbery method (of course, the film is used), but also brings the hostages and himself together. All the people in the gang changed into uniform clothes, making it impossible for the hostages and the police to confirm for a while; in this, he also mixed his own people with the hostages from time to time, and communicated with them to make them familiar with himself, which successfully made him Three of his subordinates were able to escape suspicion in subsequent interrogations. Dalton himself used a storeroom of the bank to hide in a small space separated from the sky and hide in it. After the wind passed, he swaggered out of the bank door. Due to this robbery, no one was injured or lost any money (the banker's diamonds are ill-gotten gains, and the banker himself is trying his best not to be exposed to others, so even the loss can only be "dumb eating yellow lotus" "Speaking of this, not only did he not applaud for Dalton's robbery purpose. It was like in the real society, a thief stole the money of a corrupt high-ranking official, and the high-ranking official couldn't tell the hardship), the police can't investigate A suspect was identified, so I had to let it go. The robbers not only achieved their goal of making money, but also successfully exposed the insider of the bank, and they also sold it to Sheriff Fraser for a great favor, making him both fame and fortune. .
In the process of carrying out the robbery, the whole process is dominated by the robbers. Let the arrogant police find ways to delay time and use the opportunity to deliver food to eavesdrop on each other's information, but they don't know that all these actions are exactly what the robbers want. The police are not aware of being caught in someone else's game. This can be regarded as a "middle game". I have to be amazed by Dalton's crime process.
Needless to say, the story design of the film "The Insider" is ingenious. The rhythm of the plot is pressing step by step, the multi-layered plot structure, and the unexpected development of the twists and turns. It is simple and compact, and there is no waste. At the same time, the deep reflections behind the film, such as social corruption, power temptation, dirty transactions, and human greed, have also penetrated one by one, making people marvel at the perfection of the robbery and reflect deeply.
Yi Gu/Text 06/24/2009
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