This tour de force of storytelling, chronicling the seductive mafia life and the inevitable comedown associated with it , took 3 viewings for me to finally realise its greatness. I mean I knew it was great but now it ranks amongst my all time favourites. Marty Scorsese is firing on all cylinders here, every choice oozes directorial mastery from the wide range of visual techniques (freeze frames, highlighting consecutively deeper points of no return / varying use of long and…
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Training Day 2001
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
the biggest strength of this movie is how well it places you within the shoes of jake hoyt, he is a vehicle for the audience to confront the moral dilemmas presented in the film, and there's a lot of them for just one day. The difficulty of the decisions being made by hoyt ( and thus the audience ) is further compounded by the charismatic Alonzo who you want to believe is a good person despite his crooked ways. He…
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