The film was produced by the famous director Sidney Lumet, who prefers to shoot crime and legal themes. He does not attract the box office through splendid special effects technology, but is keen on portraying ordinary characters, showing the pale and yellow turns of human nature in the pushing and pulling of the camera, such as Henry Fonda in "Twelve Angry Men" (1957), "Loving Horses" Richard Burton in "Crazy" (1977) and Al Pacino in this film.
An alternative urban landscape experience. The story takes place in the bustling city - New York. The first three minutes of the film are the city's summer afternoon in the director's eyes, the sightseeing cruise on the water, the color-matched parasols to escape the summer, the people lying in the corners, and the black people rummaging through the garbage. Dog... The coexistence of modern civilization and the silent and lonely contrast, the documentary shooting method, unbiasedly reflects the anxiety in the scorching sun.
Absurd acts describe the real social picture. The film stitches together the raging shards of America's 1970s through a heist. Sonny is a veteran of the Vietnam War. He couldn't find a job after returning home. The motive for the robbery was to raise money for a same-sex "wife" for sex reassignment surgery. Sonny and Shar, as robbers, get along happily with the hostages and are sought after by the people. The absurd situation is related to the social problems exposed at that time. For example, in the Attica prison riot in 1971, the police shot 42 people, including prisoners and hostages. In the film, when the bank security guard was sent out by Sonny because of his asthma, he was not regarded as a criminal under her hoarse dissuasion, which further exposed the resistance of innocent people to authority. Lone Hero".
Poor cute and pathetic "half-day hero". Sonny's kindness weakened his identity as a robber, and the hostages chatted freely with him. They could also eat pizza, drink drinks, send out hostages who were unwell because of the heat, and even discuss their escape destination with the hostages. When he knew there was no way to escape, he properly arranged his last assets for his family, but no one really listened and cared. The moment Shaar was killed, the hostages hugged tightly after escaping, leaving him sluggish. look.
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