If you simply shoot an action cop movie, the two-hour duration must be overflowing, because any action scene cannot last for ten minutes.
Almost every hot action scene needs some bland transitional plot as a foreshadowing, after which these action scenes will be more in-depth. Here the significance of the existence of literary drama is highlighted.
A lot of literary drama seems unnecessary to exist in large pages, but after removing them, the whole action movie is inevitably dry and boring. Any film needs to be laid down step by step, and the storyline outside the action film, although it is not the main core, but it also has the need to exist.
The movie "The Thief in the City" recommended to you today is a not so cheesy action movie, in addition to the action movie, we can think about the environment in which crime is formed, and in addition to thinking about this environment, we can also look at the love that slowly unfolds for us in this film.
"Thieves in the City" looks at a neighborhood in Boston that features bank robbery.
And these people who rob banks are all inherited, if you apply the spirit of craftsmen, then these robbers must be a group of "craftsmen" with the spirit of craftsmen.
Of course, these craftsmen together make up the ecology of Charles City, Boston, a small town where robbers, police, FBI agents, and ordinary people gather together.
The film stars a handsome man with thick eyebrows, Doug, who of course is the most important part of Charles City, and yes, he is not the FBI or the police, but a robber.
What's more, he was a robber with a certain spirit of inheritance, and Doug's father was also a veteran robber who was imprisoned for a robbery.
Later, under the influence of his father, Doug followed the big guys who followed his father before, and eventually began his own robbery. This is Doug's life and the origin of his tragedy.
Doug robbed a bank with others one day, but this robbery basically changed his life.
There was a professional female manager in the bank, and because the alarm was triggered during the robbery, the gang took the female manager hostage. They didn't hurt the female manager, and finally let her go after confirming that she was safe.
But the robbers were still distraught, and they always thought that the female manager would report them, especially after confirming that the area where the female manager lived was Charles City.
So, Doug secretly approached her, and the two eventually had an affair, but the good times were short-lived, and with the FBI's intervention, Doug's true face was revealed. Doug, knowing that he could no longer turn back, launched one last robbery.
Ben Affleck is now a generalist, on the road to the actor, he has done a very good job, from "Disappeared Woman" to the public after the actor's road, his control and understanding of the role has been very good.
But he wasn't satisfied, and eventually, he started his own path as a director. And this film is a good work of his directing career.
Generally speaking, the core of action movies is unchanged, and the contest between good and evil has always been the backbone, but on top of this trunk, whether there is a deeper level of interpretation or not, this is the new meaning that action movies need to develop.
There is no doubt that Ben Affleck's understanding of this film is relatively new. As a bank robbery movie, the general idea must be the psychological portrayal of the robber and the test of the intelligence of the police. The two sides will start a confrontation between you and me on a specific issue. This is normal logic.
A slightly deeper logic is an in-depth analysis of the story behind this story. Why robbers want to rob and how to avoid the recurrence of such problems.
Because there's a story behind any robbery, and that story needs to be deeply explored. How to avoid similar cases from happening multiple times this starting point is good.
The film not only explores the story behind the robbers, but also expands and derives this general story of redemption.
The robbers have an affair with the hostages, but this is not a Stockholm Syndrome-like feeling, but a deep analysis of the robber's true heart. This is something that ordinary action movies can't do.
There is no life but a robber, they are all under the constant blow or environmental influence, made their own final choice, this choice is not necessarily right, but there is no other way to go. No one can get away from the atmosphere here, because there are always people who are holding them back and not letting them leave.
Without this emotional line in the film, Doug's story will seem a bit rigid if it is forcibly excavated, so this emotional scene is very necessary.
After Ben Affleck fused this emotional scene, he also successfully resolved the violence in it, but instead let everyone's attention wander.
As an action film, the late flying car chase scene and the hot gun battle scene in the later stage of this film are very outstanding, as a work that can make people think deeply, the side behind the robber discovered in this film is also worth pondering.
The emotion in the film is also very bold, and it is precisely with this emotion that Doug in this film shows the other side of human nature and finally succeeds in redeeming himself. Above all, this kind of somewhat fancy action movie is worth watching.
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