The director of the film "The Battle of Men" is called Jules Dassin, which is a film made in 1995, although the film technology at that time was not as developed as it is now, but its artistic expression method was very clever, and the picture was also very fascinating, so this movie did not lose the color film at all, because this film is a classic in film noir, and before talking about this movie, let's first understand the director - Jules Dassin.
Known as the "Hollywood Gentleman", Jules Dassin was a director of considerable excellence and artistic talent, who first came from the Leftist Theater in New York to Hollywood, a star-studded place, so his film style is very similar to that of the old Parkway, and he was influenced by Italian realism, which is the origin of his film style.
Jules Dassin already had his own work as early as 1940, the film was called "Leaked Hearts", and later his film style was greatly influenced by this film, and in his later directorial career, he also made many sentimental and tragic films, such as "Urban Slums" and "Thief's Highway" are his proud works.
Later, Jules Dassin was targeted by the U.S. government and did not allow him to make any more films, so he went into exile in France, where he made the film "The Battle of Men" a few years later.
There are four main characters in the film, they are Caesar, Tony, Mario, Joe, these four people are the core of the whole film, of course, Tony is the protagonist of the protagonist, his way of behavior comes from the people in life, but also represents a kind of behavior and moral code in that period.
The four characters are a very obvious and close relationship, which can also be said to be related to the stakes, so although they seem to be relatively balanced on the surface, in fact, there is a fatal factor hidden in the middle, and this factor that exists inside will be triggered by an event and eventually explode.
Mario and Caesar, who do not betray their friends even if they die, are completely opposite, a clear contrast, and the panic after Joe's son is kidnapped and Tony's calm and decisiveness are also a set of sharp contrasts, and in this contrast between right and wrong, life and death, the complexity of human nature is clearly visible.
Mario fought desperately for the benefit of his friends and won the respect of his friends, after his death Tony and Joe buried him out of great gratitude; and for Caesar, who betrayed his friends, although sometimes he was forced, in Tony's view, this was unforgivable and must be punished.
Without discussing whether the characterization is successful, "The Battle of men" has made a great contribution to film noir, and the 20-minute silent theft scene in the film was put into "The Red Circle" by Melville unchanged many years later, and this classic plot of a group of people stealing banks and jewelry stores in detail has been constantly imitated or repeated since then.