Bloody Gangster S05: It's getting darker and more incomprehensible

Shanon 2022-04-19 09:02:53

It's still the same photography, the same soundtrack, and the same performance, and it's still the same unique and self-contained tone. If the previous seasons had a bit of a gangster epic temperament, this season is becoming a character psychological drama with a simpler and more straightforward plot and scale, but a more niche atmosphere and background. Long paragraphs of obscure dialogue and stream-of-consciousness-like empty shots, the lonely and cramped figure in the overhead shot from God’s perspective, the countless hallucinations and the sound of rapid breathing, have no intention of narrating, but focus on excavating in the bright and the dark. The painful entanglement and desperate struggle of human nature at the dark junction. Off-screen, we watched Tommy, who was destined to feel guilty, destined to wander, and destined to be injured, to bear the burden that could not be lifted, unable to stop and helpless, and walked into the black vortex of destiny together.

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Extended Reading
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Black Tuesday quotes

  • Michael Levitt: Whereas before it would have been seen as ungentlemanly to... to ask a public figure questions about personal matters or... or business affairs...

    Thomas Shelby: Oh, well. No need to worry. I'm no gentleman.

  • Aunt Polly: Imagine. The father is scared. He runs away. You're left. The baby's black, he's a bastard and it's Birmingham. But you don't care. Because the world has changed. And the baby's eyes are golden. And you're gonna leave her with Aunt Polly every day to look after. Aunt Polly, who insisted that you called her Elizabeth.

    Ada Shelby: How do you know it's a her?

    Aunt Polly: Because I'm Polly Gray.