A 21-year-old chick swept away millions of dollars out of thin air;
Good men at home watch drama to learn crime, 1 minute robbery a hundred million;
Honest people steal "American Moutai" and have been eating and drinking ever since.
Before you start the story, look at your colleagues, friends, and lovers and imagine that an ordinary person like this will rob a cash truck, and most importantly, he will succeed and retire.
Your first reaction is probably – "This is impossible"!
But looking back at the three largest thefts in U.S. history, the families of those behind the scenes may have thought so.
This time, Netflix brought together Dirty Robber, a production company that won the Academy Award for Best Short Film, and Emmy-nominated director Drake Donion to create a new original crime documentary, "Robbery and Crime", which tells a number of rather magical and huge robberies.
None of the main conspirators in the case were gangsters or even had a previous record of felony, and the process and outcome of the robbery were like "child's play".
The film uses the form of an interview to review the entire robbery from the first perspective of the personnel involved, and the actors reproduce the scene.
The play shows how the criminals choose their targets, how to make meticulous planning, and how the investigators solve the case from the clues; there are also many dialogues between the criminals and the law enforcement...
The first season consists of 6 episodes, depicting three cases, and while watching you, you can appreciate one thing:
In exchange for glory and wealth, how much risk is an ordinary person willing to take?
The film's reputation is polarized, but the overall side is positive:
We have checked for you, although the subject matter is worth looking at, but it is not necessarily worth your time to chase the whole process, so today to come to a spoiler, you taste first.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="33" > rare good subject</h1>
The first story takes place in the United States at the end of the last century, and you can think of it as a real version of "Bonnie and Clyde."
Heather, a 21-year-old girl, stole $3.1 million from the truck and evaporated.
Heather started out as a nurse caring for AIDS patients.
Probably because she has seen the deaths of too many of her peers, the physically and mentally ill girl relies on drugs to escape the pain - this is the beginning of her depravity.
After losing her job, she moved in with her career criminal boyfriend Roberto, finding solace in "love" and "metaphysics."
Heather certainly knew Roberto's identity, but she couldn't resist the sense of security that men brought her, and this exciting life.
Soon after, Roberto took Heather on his first robbery, the man went in to rob it, the woman was responsible for stalking, and the male and female thieves "first battle" earned $30,000.
Two unemployed street skates sink into emptiness and drugs all day long, and $30,000 quickly runs out, and Heather has to consider finding a job.
Six weeks before the robbery, Heather applied for a cash truck driver and easily obtained the job by taking advantage of the company's need for a certain number of female employees.
A cash truck is equipped with 3 employees, and two cash carriers handle the money, replenishing banknotes for casinos in Las Vegas and at-machines at Bank of America, replacing old banknotes.
Heather observed that the carriages contained up to four or five million in cash.
Boyfriend Roberto began to ask east and west after learning about it, such as which days the cash truck loaded more money.
Over time, Heather saw that Roberto was gathering intelligence from her, and a plan of robbery was gradually brewing.
Heather drew a route for Roberto to transport money, recording the specific time of each arrival at the replenishment point.
Roberto would follow the cash truck over and over again, familiar with the daily route, road conditions, the location of the guards, the working conditions of the money carriers... The prototype of the robbery slowly came out.
When the cash carrier went to replenish the cash machine, most of the money remained in the car, which was the time to start.
In the end, the two chose a great place to start:
The building here is scattered with 6-8 cash machines, and it takes about 45 minutes for the money carrier to complete the work, enough for Heather to hijack the cash truck;
The actual time left for the male and female thieves is actually longer than expected.
After getting off the bus at point A, the cashier must get on the bus at the distant point B, because Heather usually forgets the route, if the colleague does not see Heather at point B, he will only think that the girl is lost again.
Roberto then rented a garage to hide after Heather had hijacked the cash truck.
However, unlike the previous robbery, Heather changed from a hand to a robbery, and the "big deal" of millions of dollars made her panic.
So Roberto used hypnosis to help Heather stay focused; he told her that they were robbing the big conglomerate of money and didn't hurt the hard-working workers... In short, it is to use various points of view to convince Heather that they are doing the right thing.
What really got Heather involved may be that she couldn't get out of Roberto's control, he had been in prison for 16 years for killing people.
There is no "no" in the option he gives, and Heather whitewashes it as unconditional love.
Next, they have to find a way to deal with the police who are out of the nest - Roberto decides to dress her up as an old lady, pretending to be the biggest feature of age.
Before they started, they conducted several simulation exercises to make sure Heather didn't go the wrong way.
The robbery was officially carried out, and the whole process was smooth.
After the cashier got out of the car, Heather drove the car to the garage that had been rented in advance.
The cashiers walked out of the building after finishing their work and found heather not picking them up, and their first reaction was that the girl was lost.
But when the two walked back to the drop-off point, Heather wasn't there either.
You must know that the cash truck is a safe haven for the money carrier, and the two brothers carry two pockets of money around, not to mention the panic in their hearts. But more troublingly, they realized heather had hijacked the car.
An hour after the robbery, police from all over the city set out to use helicopters to find cash trucks.
By this time Heather had already met Roberto, the woman put on a disguise, the man sent the money to the designated place, and then the two went to the airport and left Las Vegas forever in a private jet.
By this time, only two hours had passed since the robbery. A 21-year-old girl who couldn't even tell the difference between the throttle and the clutch hijacked the cash truck, and the bizarre operation shocked everyone.
△ Heather is wanted
Heather and Roberto arrive in Miami and realize their "dream" of living a luxurious life.
But after a brief moment of pleasure, there are limits to freedom that are far away, and... The love that pushes Heather to complete everything is flowing.
Roberto hooked up with other girls.
The life of "polygamy" was agreed upon by Roberto and Heather at the beginning, but the girl's jealousy grew.
The three of them lived on Sint Maarten, and Heather gradually realized that Roberto's mind was not on him.
Later, Heather became pregnant, and she and Roberto moved to the Netherlands to give birth to a son, but Roberto took home a woman.
It was only at this moment that Heather realized that he had mispaid and that Roberto had only used her as a tool.
Love will disappear, and maybe he never loved himself. Heather decided to quit, taking $18,000 and leaving with her son.
Roberto didn't stop Heather, or even question her true purpose—because he didn't care at all.
After that, Heather paid his own rent, bought milk powder diapers to take care of his son, and worked hard to live in Amsterdam.
She needed money, so she became a "escort girl" and "stole" british citizenship for herself and her son.
Police have been searching for Heather's whereabouts during this time, but scattered clues have made it difficult to pinpoint her tracks.
It can be said that the two sides have been at peace for almost ten years, during which Heather met a new boyfriend, who accepted her and her son, and she also confessed her identity as a fugitive.
Impunity is not true freedom. Seeing that her son's passport was about to expire, she had to make a final choice in order for her son to have a legal identity.
Heather wrote to a criminal lawyer in the United States, and she decided to turn herself in.
With the help of lawyers, Heather successfully returned home and went to trial, pleading guilty to two counts of misappropriation and one count of obtaining a false passport and was sentenced to five years in prison.
The incident ended with Heather's voluntary surrender. Today, the mastermind Roberto is still missing, not knowing whether he is alive or dead; Heather's son has graduated from college, and Heather himself has returned to work in a medical institution.
She will spend the rest of her life repaying the stolen $3 million.
A little girl makes a tool for the crime boss, becomes the most well-known robber in the United States, and blind love in despair will make people unhappy.
The second story is even more magical, and a few introductions can arouse your desire to watch.
A good family man accidentally learned that a warehouse at the airport stored nearly $100 million and was not guarded, so he gathered family members and successfully snatched more than 7 million in just a few minutes.
Outrageously, this mastermind has no experience in robbery, treats watching dramas as "lessons", and all his actions are learned from TV dramas.
Just by watching FBI programs, American dramas such as "CSI Crime Scene Investigation" and the Discovery Channel to learn detective knowledge, he developed a meticulous robbery plan.
This man learned the complete investigation process of the FBI from popular science columns and dramas, and knew what they relied on to catch criminals.
For example, shave off body hair before robbery, avoid leaving DNA at the scene, the money in the robbery may hide GPS positioning, and take the money to do what you can and can't be greedy;
After winning the hand, we must seize the transfer of money, change the car for transportation, and destroy the original car.
The method of hiding money is even more knowledgeable.
In order to prevent the cash from getting wet, the man stuffed the money into a thick PVC tube, poured it into the talcum powder to absorb moisture, and finally sealed and buried it in the ground.
The easiest thing to overlook is "keeping a low profile".
The sudden emergence of a civilian into a plethora was bound to arouse suspicion, and many of the robbers lost on this point, so several of them continued to work the day after the robbery.
If the plan was so meticulous, why was he arrested? The story has its ups and downs and is worth seeing.
Watching dramas, you can also learn professional crimes when watching American dramas... It's like you find out that someone took "Breaking Bad" as a chemistry class, and finally got admitted to graduate school in chemistry?
The third story is also that honest people have gone astray.
The distillery worker took advantage of the atmosphere of stir-frying to steal wine and sell it at a high price, and the incident involved all classes; and the reason for his final arrest was extremely absurd.
Each of the three stories has its own "earth-shattering", but there is only one ending: sooner or later, you have to pay the price.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="265" > a rare good subject</h1>
Looking at the few short reviews of this freshly baked documentary so far, some people especially like it:
But even more striking is the word "boring."
Netflix has produced many high-quality crime documentaries, such as "Guardian" and "Making Murderers", but this time it has told the good theme of "major robbery" very "child's play".
The first is that the point of force is not right, and the audience's real interest in the robbery is not thoroughly explained - such as the inducement to lead the criminals astray.
Take the first story as an example: Why did Heather willingly listen to Roberto's call?
Because her parents married in high school, they soon divorced; her stepmother, who constantly humiliated Heather, was in trouble.
Girls who lack love from childhood naturally cannot resist a man who focuses on himself.
Her self-indulgence degenerated, and it seemed that it was actually self-help.
This kind of case "hidden feeling" is the attractive part, but this film is all point to the point;
Throughout the book, the perpetrators are listened to state their subjective feelings and the grief of their families, and there is no objective analysis of the motives for the crime, which gives people the feeling of reading a confession statement.
Heather, the protagonist of the first story, seems to be showing off his "merits" in front of the camera, speaking like a poetry recitation, and his expression is very exaggerated.
Seeing the end, I found out that Heather himself did not want to appear on camera, it was an actor...
△ The real "American beauty thief" Heather Tallchief
Please, I'd rather watch the true feelings of the mosaic face the whole time than listen to an actor relay the feelings of the person.
And the impact of robberies on direct victims and indirect participants is largely ignored.
For example, what problem did Heather's carjacking cause to her cashier colleagues?
What is the view of the institutions and businessmen whose interests have been damaged?
Maybe we should focus on the robbery itself?
But in addition to the second story, the modus operandi and results in the other two topics are really nothing new and cannot be remembered.
The most "child's play" is the way to tell the story, the large length is fast-paced editing + cheerful soundtrack + excessive performance taste, it seems to want to rely on a slightly debauched, unserious style, the three robberies out of the "magical reality".
Instead of this, it is better to give more footage to the judicial department, and use their embarrassment and frustration during the investigation to counter-prove the absurdity and bizarreness of the robbery, so that it is more realistic.
The subject that should be very serious, from the form to the content, is all depriving the documentary of its sense of reality. The documentary is made into a show, are you polite?
If you want to talk about the legend of the robbery, choose a case that really has twists and turns, and do not rely on the form to strengthen the concave temperament;
If you want to focus on the psychological analysis of the parties, please give up some of the storytelling to explore their inner thoughts. (PS: you have to turn off bgm first)
In general, this documentary talks about everything, but it doesn't talk about any of them well, and it blinds the good subjects.
However, the second story (episodes 3-4) is really wonderful and can be taken out alone to enjoy.