July, 1 2009. This movie shows Dillinger as a depression era hero and romantic. The action is great of course, just as you would expect from a Michael Mann movie. There is the traditional tension between criminals and their loved ones, which Mann explored delightfully in HEAT. But there is also an underlying melancholy involving the end of an era. Melvin Purvis and the FBI use new techniques to bring the criminals to heel, wire tapping and crime scene analysis that will one day become our beloved CSI. But there are also the age-old techniques of threatening the family of the accused and beating witnesses. It brings to mind the eternal question of how far you can go to fight fire with fire. Do you become the monster to destroy a monster? The fact that Purvis killed himself by shooting himself in the head must be considered a partial answer. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Public Enemies
July, 1 2009. This movie shows Dillinger as a depression era hero and romantic. The action is great of course, just as you would expect from a Michael Mann movie. There is the traditional tension between criminals and their loved ones, which Mann explored delightfully in HEAT. But there is also an underlying melancholy involving the end of an era. Melvin Purvis and the FBI use new techniques to bring the criminals to heel, wire tapping and crime scene analysis that will one day become our beloved CSI. But there are also the age-old techniques of threatening the family of the accused and beating witnesses. It brings to mind the eternal question of how far you can go to fight fire with fire. Do you become the monster to destroy a monster? The fact that Purvis killed himself by shooting himself in the head must be considered a partial answer. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/
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