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Review: Public Enemies


"If I were to die in a film, it would be one of Michael Mann, Dante Cantabria

- They will only care where people come from, and what is important is where it goes
- And you where you're going
- wherever

Public Enemies by MRA
Michael Mann (2009)

John Dillinger, the criminal who was mythologized hyper active since its release in May 1933 after eight and a half years sentence for assault, until his death in July 34.

This brief period left over to raise his legend, whose foundations were set at a time in American history marked by the Great Depression and the deep hatred of ordinary people to banks, which together with the audacity spillage and no civilian casualties in his punches made him win the sympathy of the public.

This entire melodramatic trappings helped the FBI, then under the command of a lawyer of 29 years, J. Edgar Hoover, an expert on the power of the media and on whose initiative appear for the first time in 1932 the FBI Newsletter for Law Enforcement , publication for the greater glory of his agency and thus the objectives pursued by this.


Director Michael Mann the author of, among other Heat (Heat, 1995) Collateral (Collateral, 2004) The Insider (The Insider, 1999) or The Last of the Mohicans (The Last of the Mohicans, 1992) and its writers based on the book: Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 build the story of the tape remain outside the current political movements and the use made of the character to increase the influence of the FBI, not in vain in the presentation made by Hoover in This film is facing a court seeking an increase in funding for their organization and one of the judges criticized his penchant for headlines and media coverage of their work;

- Do you intend to be a big star? - he said before denying the request.
- We will respond in front - answers to her publicist later a Hoover with Billy Crudup's face, an actor who brings 10 years of age the real character, to then ask for the whereabouts of Dillinger.


is important to understand the impersonation of law enforcement to understand a character like that of Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) in the plot, and the relationship between the two antagonists, because although there are many similarities between this film and Heat is only Dillinger Johnny Depp who is close to the spirit of Neil McCauley in Heat unforgettable .

- We qui by the bank's money, not yours - Dillinger says at one point in the film, exactly the same phrase he uttered DeNiro to enter the bank Heat, a phrase that came from the and Bonnie and Clyde ( Bonnie and Clyde, 1967) Arthur Penn.


However as I said, but the constants are there, and Dillinger and Neil McCauley share many common points , make a comparison between the character of Al Pacino and Bale would be an act of myopia, because for Mann, Purvis is nothing more than a puppet confessed the power that makes their work without more, driven by political pressures and that, contrary to Al Pacino in Heat does not feel even the slightest empathy for the criminal pursued.

And therefore if there a deeper relationship between pursuer and pursued is not clumsiness of the script as some have claimed, but because it wants Mann, building a sosainas Purvis as an officer, as opposed to a parasite such as Dillinger that they are aware of the little time he remains and all the friends who have fallen by the way, that at the end of the film visits the FBI to see his legend and his legacy, while the police made a break in his office to listen to a party, and therefore do not recognize, something that can not afford Dillinger because for him, unlike for Purvis this is not a job, is a way of life that can not escape. Mostly the

Dillinger reminds people and few could tell before the premiere of the film who was Melvin Purvis. And as a gray type is portrayed, so bland that just is not him but the agent Charles Winstead (a wonderful Stephen Lang) who visit Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) at the end of the film to talk about John Dillinger.


Interestingly the only one who cherishes a worthy antagonist Dillinger beyond advertising involved in their capture, the agent Winstead, like something out of a western, both for its appearance and presentation in the film, after Purvis who need the assistance of experienced men, Winstead and his team of tough-looking types Marshalls and mustache with long coats come in a train as if they were brothers Erp of Tombstone (Tombstone, 1993) , something consistent in a few moments as the film looks like a western, as in the splendid shooting in the forest, or time of abatement of a gangster with background song of Otis Taylor, calculated without mercy and with a bleeding wound and dirty in the foreground in the stomach; scenes that create weak but challenging bridges with that other movie that was John Milius' Dillinger (Dillinger, 1973) or Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid San Peckimpah (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, 1973) , a masterpiece well weighted never seems to run off the character of Stephen Lang.


So this coldness in the relationship between its main characters and boredom that causes the love story can play against the tape, but Mann serves to get away from all comparison, which reaffirms the use digital camera, fascinating in a hyper-realistic portrait of wounds, shootings and neon lights, with a superb installation and use of music that I can only describe as perfect. Every minute

Mann builds wonderful set pieces of action, displaying the shootings as anyone, lengthening, tasting and experimenting with her digital camera third film shot in this medium after the influential l and infumable Collatera Miami Vice (Miami Vice, 2006) composing action scenes light years ahead of what their contemporaries are doing and what we lets see today in a cinema. His critics can say what they want and lack of true emotion imputing this his latest film, and probably would not be without reason, but they are also unable to name another author who can make adult thrillers so brilliantly and millimeter like him so continuous, and that is a lot.

2009 - MRA



Other views of people who write better than I

Public Enemies by Wachinai
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Then I saw a couple of weeks, Mr. Ain crítca is spot on, I personally due to my ignorance intellectual'm absolutely unable to get referrals. The movie I liked, but at some time or another I was heavy (I have attention deficit syndrome, it is clear that I will never be a gafapasta).

is a movie tough guys, who lived a hard time and constantly live in situations which make them harder, hence the cold air, almost without feeling, you go like a glove. Moreover, certain that at that time hugs and sentimentality is not distilled in those environments, were types of cigarettes, whiskey and sex without preliminary. Personally I love Christian Bale's character does what he does and how it has to do, not think, is a machine and Dillinger's character in question will sweat their balls, just want to see him behind bars.

John Deep, I think a great guy, I personally love it, I think the best thing today and that their records are unlimited, on occasion, it is true that would kill him, but I like nice and I already predisposed to everything I see him I'll like it. in this movie, seems perfectly chosen, physical, and casually violent clip gone, and the relationship with "him" Marion, I love, such an air of seductive woman and melted by the scar on his face.




On the action scenes, I will say at the outset that it sounds a good shot Thompson hahaha. I like being shot, close-ups of faces rather sharp disparndo machine guns, 10. And many throws, gangster movies required to melt and fuse shells without knowledge, as they were, could not be more conspicuous.

The scene where the FBI comes, not if it was true or not, I loved it there is what was Dillinger, a bold guy with two balls, without thinking things twice, acting, the future there and say, more curious than a cat lol, awesome.

The movie I liked and this is my uneducated criticism, that if, as Dillinger, with two balls, less knowledge and no matter what, and much less to say.

2009 - Wachinai

Public Enemies by Adrian Mendoza of the joke
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I say "Public Enemies" is a film that has given me many ideas. One, the main one is robbing banks as I am about 6 months on the dole, unable to buy an apartment, and increasingly angry.
Joking aside (or not) is one of the best movies I've seen this year. A very interesting story of an era (the depression) of many movies that we have today, by the moment reminds me of "Cinderella Man."
The Life and Times of John Dillinger, a name that has stuck me with fire, bank robber and a better person which proves to be a thief does not conflict with the life you want to take, if not the situation. I was shocked that Dillinger was a kind of myth, a kind of hope for the humble people of the United States, a man who stopped at nothing to bring the life we \u200b\u200ball dreamed at one point too hard (I think you can equate the medieval famines).

acting the part of Johnny Depp does not disappoint me or the other actors, be they major or secundarios.En all times I believed what they were telling me.
Just a slap on the actor who embodied the FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, Billy Croup, which was so bland in his role as Dr. Manhattan.

the part artistic I must say the way is shot hit me and I rocked in the chair, especially in the realistic shooting (shoot seem to give the viewer!). Excellent.

I must say that the films of Michael Mann never quite like me. HEAT COLLATERAL seems passable and not finished or even see, so it cost me to go see this.
But I must say I take back what I thought of the director.

Another issue is that I think these movies should see them all over the world to learn moral values \u200b\u200band to give him ideas. I think that like V for Vendetta, Watchmen, ... is a movie where if you want to get double readings or messages below the apparent linearity. One of those movies that opens people's eyes.