After watching "Big Winner", I decided to read the real story "dog day afternoon" recommended by netizens. It was also a bank robbery, but this movie reflected a whole era. The case of the bank robbery started on a seemingly ordinary midsummer afternoon. The first half seemed absurd, and the unprofessional timidity of the robbers made people laugh. But gradually we see that this is far from a comedy. We cannot laugh and hate these two robbers. They are the epitome of American soldiers in the Korean War, the epitome of gay patients, the epitome of fathers with the burden of wives and children, and the epitome of sons with old mothers. We've long forgotten that the bank robber is committing a crime, and the person being robbed looks relaxed and smiling. The movie exposed many social problems in the United States with a robbery case: 1. Attica expressed her distrust of the police and the government. When sonny yelled that if the media wasn't there, the police would have shot everyone. The Attica incident resonated with many viewers, who believed that in the eyes of the police, the lives of the hostages were not important, but only the faces of the police in front of the media cameras. So a large group of people stayed there to support the robbers; 2. The police were inefficient, even without a unified command, the two robbers actually let them delay them for a day, and finally used the FBI; 3. The problem of homosexuals; 4. People of unbelief. On the one hand, they supported the robbers, and on the other hand, when the robbers were arrested, that group of bankers never looked back.
Many people say that robbers have Stockholm Syndrome, but I don't think so. Sonny never wanted to take hostages from the very beginning, nor did he want to cause life, but was driven to a dead end step by step. So in the end, I still sympathize with sonny. He is a marginal person who was forced by the times to have nowhere to go, but he still chooses to be kind.
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