Killing them (not so) softly... Long. Killing Them Softly plays out as an allegory for the 2007-2008 financial crisis: major risk taking, a system collapse, financial bail-outs, and a subsequent recession. the acting is really good (especially Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn) and the cinematography is god damn stunning. The heavy handed nature of Killing Them Softly is part of the text, and I don't think Dominik was intending to be subtle at all. It's all hands on deck for democracy. Everyone fucking over everyone. It was an analogy. I'd read the emails of middle management staff and remark on the endless status reports passing back and forth while discussing lunch plans, new cars and home improvements. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Those reports migrate into the void, guiding $Decisions. The political overtones were in no way subtle... 20 minutes of presidential and financial regulators speeches actually pulled me out of the story because of how annoying it was being slapped across the face by the message so tirelessly. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. This is just a movie, like all others that happens to create an interesting setting of a losing crime ridden town. It all came down to that message from pitt at the end. I point at it and and ask. The characters in this movie seem like they’re resigned to this kind of life simply because they don’t know how to do anything else. No one who sees the film won't understand it's about contemporary politics. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Right now they're not afraid of you". New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures, Press J to jump to the feed. Ok I just finished this and have a question. Those political speeches from President Obama, and President Bush, have been playing in the background. ", me:"No. The message was: we're all essentially the same... mob boss, mob enforcer, low-level street scum. It's a rip roaring treatise against humanity via the Abrahamic narrative. Like the President, in 2008, he is speaking as a representative. You say they spent too much time developing Gandolfini's character because he's not that important, but he is, because the movie is NOT about plot, it's exclusively about a time and place and the people who inhabit it. It's about how at the core of it all is economics. All Rights Reserved. It's enraging, and since it happened during our fall fundraising drive, we hope the Mother Jones community will stand up for our fearless journalism and send a message with a donation to support it today. Starring Brad Pitt & Scoot McNairy, the film revolves around the repercussions of an underground casino heist gone wrong. No, not a blank one, but one with a nice set of data on it, that looks like patient data, but instead has subtly wrong data, like giving random names, random data and such for the label printer to place on the envelopes. We're talking about 15-20% of total revenue missing on the paper. Hell, I even liked Ed Harris' character in that. Along with Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike, Killing Them Softly is so far the best Great Recession movie to … It was like if Tarantino wanted to do a bad movie, he would have made this. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures, Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. I love films about inept, bottom rung, small time criminals. I am not interested in tracing it for many more paragraphs. Sounds like Froomkin doesn't value their contract very much. Then on the second watch I really began to appreciate the film. I rewatched Killing Them Softly, and I was sober this time so I was able to fully appreciate what it was. Yes! That's just what I felt was missing from this one, a sense of connection. Killing Them Softly is about how alone and disconnected every person is, and how our society seems to foster that. ", Me:"I think I understand everybody's incentives here". What do you think the social commentary/message was, specifically? Not sure they take it to the tech/personal level much, but they certainly can. I know Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian, whose opinion I don't necessarily respect, changed his review from 4 to 5 stars, I presume after a second watch, and I'd recommend another watch, if only for the ending. Not because they're dangerous, however, but because when they fuck up like everyone else, they pay for it a lot more. The illegal gambling is a lot like the subindustries that fueled the crisis: It shouldn't be happening, but as we have seen in the last few years and as Coogan is trying to orchestra, all we can think about is "returning to the way it was" as it has been said in one form or other. They eventually " bail out " the Jenkins' Driver character (bank CEO's) by solving their crisis of confidence problem for Driver, through in this case killing some of the responsible parties. As the pair raid the safe and force gamblers to empty their pockets and shoes, a televised address by George W. Bush echoes in the background. To all parties involved. This is when the driver (Richard Jenkins) hires Jackie (Brad Pitt) to step in. Was he real? Thomas jefferson was a brilliant guy and did help a lot with the founding of America and if you have ever taken a look at his writings and documents he clearly has genuine pride for america and rebelling against the british and is not just a 'wine snob who didnt want to pay taxes so he got people to go fight england' like pitt exclaims. I am one tooth in a cog of a giant clanking Rube Goldberg machine. Much like Coogan, the government didn't want to set a precedent by directly interfering, so they bring in someone who still a player in that system and use them as proxy for their actions. Which brings me to a related point: the pacing was pretty abysmal throughout the entire movie. The president speaks calmly but deliberately about public panic and market meltdown, as hardened gangsters sit quietly while their wallets are emptied at gunpoint. This really resonated with me. Here's a link to a long winded response I've posted elsewhere in the thread. ", Craggy:"You don't need to be confrontational about it", Me:"And where do you store that drive when you're not printing labels?". This information includes their identities and information about their coverage, so it's all PHI under HIPAA, so they deserve heightened scrutiny by BigHealth's compliance cogs. This couldn't be further from the truth. I should revisit it. Everyone dies like everyone else. And on that note, check out the movie’s theatrical trailer, and then go check out the movie: Killing Them Softly gets a release on Friday, November 30.

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