son of no man

Zackery 2022-09-24 13:18:35

An accomplished police officer Jonathan "Milk" White (Channing Tatum) grew up in a slum and committed a manslaughter under duress as a child, a secret that only his friend Vinnie (Tracy Morgan) knows. The investigating policeman (Al Pacino) covered it up. After a lapse of many years, someone wrote to the police and newspaper to expose the case, and the chief ordered Jonathan to investigate the matter. He began to suspect his childhood friend Vinnie, but couldn't confirm it. This matter caused him great distress, and this emotion directly threatened his work, life and family. The killing of an informed newspaper editor is becoming more and more imminent. Jonathan investigates privately, only to be injured in a sneak attack. At this time, the old police officer and the chief of the investigation came forward and asked Jonathan to kill Vinnie. Vinnie jumped off the building when he was hesitating to prove his loyalty. At the end of the film, the revealer turns out to be someone else.
Although the plot of this film is not complicated, it is ups and downs, and the inner sensitivity, pain, hesitation and suspicion of the characters are portrayed in detail. Constantly interspersed and flashed back in the main plot, the childhood time just revealed the plot, and also laid the groundwork for the later suspicions and misunderstandings of the male protagonist about his friends. Instead of being able to help his friend out of the predicament, he was killed because of himself, and the male protagonist would fall into painful remorse all his life. Al Pacino's role is not much, but it is the link between the past and the next. Although the film is not long, the audience needs to calm down and savor the selfish interpersonal relationship and the warm and cold world.

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The Son of No One quotes

  • Detective Charles Stanford: I can't save the world, this ain't no fucking Superman suit I'm wearing.

  • Detective Charles Stanford: You can hate me for the rest of your life, but you're a free man now! YOU'RE A FREE MAN!