That's the second time I watch this very very powerful crime drama.
What a jewel, the perfect example of Hollywood industry will never - and I mean it - never make. That's the perfect "anti SCARFACE" movie. The best example of what the ambitious thugs in prison have to do in order to succeed in the crime world. SCARFACE was somewhere a very moral film, where the ending showed the audiences that crime never pays. In this movie, that's just the contrary. Everyone, well nearly everyone, can identify himself in the main character. The common petty hoodlum who is ready to anything to become a gang leader. Anything. That's not the hero type. No, folks. Sometimes, he may make you feel dizzy, especially in the murder sequence, in the cell, when he cuts his mate's throat, only to save his own life, threaten by the Corsican mob. And afterwards, he also may look like a good guy, brave and so on, but he still remains a bastard.
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And at the end, he survives and you guess he will become a real lead in the crime industry. Only because he was a ruthless guy. The real, cruel face of reality.
And appreciate the nearly finale scene, where the former Corsican gang leader falls, suddenly becomes no one, the exact character the lead was at the beginning of the film. This made me think, think, think, long after the viewing of this absolute superb french crime drama.
What a jewel, the perfect example of Hollywood industry will never - and I mean it - never make. That's the perfect "anti SCARFACE" movie. The best example of what the ambitious thugs in prison have to do in order to succeed in the crime world. SCARFACE was somewhere a very moral film, where the ending showed the audiences that crime never pays. In this movie, that's just the contrary. Everyone, well nearly everyone, can identify himself in the main character. The common petty hoodlum who is ready to anything to become a gang leader. Anything. That's not the hero type. No, folks. Sometimes, he may make you feel dizzy, especially in the murder sequence, in the cell, when he cuts his mate's throat, only to save his own life, threaten by the Corsican mob. And afterwards, he also may look like a good guy, brave and so on, but he still remains a bastard.
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And at the end, he survives and you guess he will become a real lead in the crime industry. Only because he was a ruthless guy. The real, cruel face of reality.
And appreciate the nearly finale scene, where the former Corsican gang leader falls, suddenly becomes no one, the exact character the lead was at the beginning of the film. This made me think, think, think, long after the viewing of this absolute superb french crime drama.