Killing
Them Softly opens with Frankie (Scoot McNairy) walking out a tunnel into
the dusty lot, with litter swirling in the air. Crashing into this scene, along
with the credits, are excerpts of a speech by Barack Obama given in the lead up
to the 2008 Presidential Election. These snippets of political broadcasts and
audio are a constant presence in Killing
Them Softly, as we follow blundering criminals Frankie and Russell (Ben
Mendelsohn) who rob a mob-backed poker game. The Mafia brings in hit-man Jackie
Cogan (Brad Pitt), and later Cogan’s associate Mickey (James Gandolfini), to
take out those involved in the robbery.
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Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Sunday, 25 January 2015
Zero Dark Thirty (2012): **
Zero Dark
Thirty follows the CIA’s hunt for Osama Bin Laden spanning across
ten years, starting from 9/11 all the way to Bin Laden’s death in his compound
in 2011. The film centres on CIA agent Maya (Jessica Chastain), who single-mindedly
gathers information and visits black sites in order to get her target, tackling
bureaucratic obstacles and colleague scepticism along the way.