One kills time, the other kills people. Very rarely write reviews, but
Accomplice is an unusual film, a kind of criminal philosophical drama.
How many good films about crime have already been made (
Fight,
Donnie Brasco,
The Godfather,
Fight Club), the topic of accidental complicity has already been won (
Phone booth is a worthy example of this), but this film has become something new for me.
Paradoxically, the film is not about crime (it serves more as a background), and the plot is not to expect anything special. It is important to understand what is hidden in the dialogues and trifles caught in the lens. I can’t say that the film is very tense, but it is clearly fascinating and makes you feel the atmosphere. Dialogues with Vincent in a taxi, a scene with dogs running across the road, crossing in an elevator with a police officer, the result of Max’s attempt to call for help, etc. moments reveal the characters, the idea of this film and the talent of the director.
This film is a kind of conversation about the value of human life and the importance of time. Throughout the picture, attention is focused on time. Max accurately determines the duration of each trip, but at the same time he does not have a clear plan for fulfilling his dreams and does not realize how much time he spent aimlessly.
In this film, it is the negative hero that evokes response and sympathy, his ruthless prudence became a revelation for the respectable Max and, alas, a statement of the lives of most people:
Come to your senses! Napkins, clean floors, someday your own firm. How much have you saved? One day... one day the dream will come true. One day you will wake up at night and realize that something has not grown together, life has passed, you are no longer young. I failed. There was no chance from the start. You push the dream deeper into memory, swallow pills and the rest of your life reach under the hypnosis of telemuti.
Dialogues about murder and the significance of human life deserve attention.
Shit! He's dead. Did you kill him?
- No, I just shot and killed his bullet.
- Death and life have no high goal and no low goal.
- And you?
- I'm a cog... We are lost in space... Hundreds of galaxies, hundreds of millions of stars, and if there's a speck on one of them, no one will notice. So we are lost in space: cop, you, me, who will notice us?
People here don't care about each other. Here one - I read - went down to the subway and died. I spent six hours riding until someone noticed. The corpse was winding circles around Los Angeles, and the people walked, walked and no one noticed. I would also like to mention Tom Cruise. In my opinion, Vincent is one of his best roles. Like Lestat in "Interview with the Vampire," his Vincent does not allow himself to be perceived as a scoundrel, he makes you think about his words.
Six billion people on the planet, Max. And you're so worried about one fat guy.
- Who was he?
- Don't you care?
- Have you heard of Rwanda?
- Yeah, I know that place. Tens of thousands were killed before sunset. Never have people been killed so quickly since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Did you even blink an eye, Max?
- What?
- Have you joined Amnesty International or Oxfam? Save the Whales or Greenpeace? Nope. I hit a fat LA guy, and you're hissing at me. You're alive. I saved you! Did you say thank you? No, you're stuck again! You want to send me the fuck out?
- Fuck you! 8 out of 10
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