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Public enemy? popular star?
Brown 2022-04-22 07:01:04
I remember that I should have seen this movie before, but because I didn't know more about the background of the story, the first time I was more or less immersed in the shootout between the gang robbers and the investigation bureau, as well as the plots of bank robbery, prison breakout and girls. After being recommended by a friend to brush public enemies twice yesterday, this time it brought deeper thinking: ① There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. When the former "safe haven" thought that John could no longer bring benefits to himself, but instead harmed his own interests, then not to mention betrayal, at least not to help. ②When the old way of making money has changed from the original gangster money laundering to the use of telephone communication equipment to play tricks and gain greater benefit value, it has actually shown that an era has ended and a new era is beginning. ③The FBI wants to establish a position by suppressing robbers. John’s interest in the gang is nothing more than a rotten old school: money, status, power, women. In that country, if you want to do everything you want, first of all, you can't break the law. On the contrary, it feels that those who have the latest technology and use the phone to grab greater benefits are more flexible and smarter. Of course, there is absolutely no objection to the performance of the male protagonist John, and even personally feel that John is not the enemy of the public, but the enemy of the "bureaucratic class" who violated the interests of the American imperialist bourgeoisie and the authority of the government. When he arrived at the "Indiana" prison, so many people welcomed him, maybe he was the popular star in the public's mind.
Extended Reading
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Austin 2022-03-25 09:01:06
What kind of a bad film is this one that has no climax, the beginning and the end, except for the shabi who pretends to be b, the thief and the gloomy policeman, but to find countless such films is nothing more than changing the protagonist and even the tone is tmd.
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Marjolaine 2021-10-20 19:02:40
The blockbuster was made into a TV movie. In any case, the DV-level picture quality and the rough recording effect are not satisfactory. Will the scene scheduling change drastically due to the use of digital photography?
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[Purvis and Baum are listening in on a wiretapped call]
Agent Carter Baum: This is a phone conversation from a car dealership twenty-seven minutes ago. Harry Berman.
[He pushes down the needle to play back an acetate disk]
John Dillinger's voice: When you drop it, leave the keys on the floorboard.
Harry Berman's voice: I got a DeSoto.
John Dillinger's voice: Okay.
[Purvis takes off his headphones]
Melvin Purvis: How did we get to Berman?
Agent Carter Baum: Off the Dillinger coat. The coat was bought in Cicero, Illinois, a few doors down from Berman's dealership. Now we know Berman. He's been supplying cars to the Syndicate since Capone. When Dillinger bought that coat, he must've been at Berman's switching cars.
Melvin Purvis: Soon as they call to drop the DeSoto, we'll tail it. I want men on this, around the clock.
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[Hoover is at a Senate Appropriation Committee hearing]
Senator Kenneth McKellar: Why do we need this?
J. Edgar Hoover: Because criminals flee in fast automobiles across state lines, thereby defeating local jurisdiction because there is no federal police force to stop them.
Senator Kenneth McKellar: By my tally, your bureau wants to spend more taxpayer's dollars catching crooks, than what the crooks you catch stole in the first place.
J. Edgar Hoover: Well that's ridiculous. The Bureau has apprehended kidnappers and bank robbers who have stolen up to and in excess of...
Senator Kenneth McKellar: Really?
[Hoover stops midsentence]
Senator Kenneth McKellar: How many have you apprehended?
J. Edgar Hoover: We have arrested and arraigned 213 wanted felons.
Senator Kenneth McKellar: No, I mean *you*, Director Hoover.
J. Edgar Hoover: Well, as Director, I administer.
Senator Kenneth McKellar: How many have you arrested, personally?
[long pause as Hoover stares at McKellar]
J. Edgar Hoover: I have never arrested anybody.
[Other men in the chamber gasp in shock]
Senator Kenneth McKellar: You've never arrested anybody?
J. Edgar Hoover: Well of course not. I'm an administrator...
Senator Kenneth McKellar: With no field experience. You are shockingly unqualified, aren't you, sir? You have never personally conducted a criminal investigation in the field in your life. I think you're a front. I think your prowess as a lawman is a myth, created from the hoopla of headlines by Mr. Suydam, your publicist there. Crimebuster? G-Man? You're setting yourself up as a Czar? That's running wild in my estimation.
J. Edgar Hoover: A *crime* is what runs wild...
Senator Kenneth McKellar: If this country requires a bureau such as yours, I question whether you are the person fit to run it.
J. Edgar Hoover: [getting angry] Well I will not be judged by a kangaroo court of venal politicians...
Senator Kenneth McKellar: Your appropriation increase is denied.
[taps his gavel, signifying the end of the session; Hoover and his aides get up and leave]
J. Edgar Hoover: Feed the following to Walter Winchell: "McKellar is a Neanderthal, and he is on a personal vendetta to destroy me." We will not contest him in his committee. We need to fight him on the front page. Where's John Dillinger?