P2PON Recommends – “Public Enemies”
Johhny Depp as John Dillinger
Each week we’ll be presenting a film and providing you with a link where you can download it and watch it in good quality.
OK, we're a bit late this week with our movie recommendation, but you guys won't mind. The leading picture in our "Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies via BitTorrent" chart this week is also the film we are presenting today.
First things first – if you’ve ever watched a movie just because one of its protagonists was too damn cool to resist, then already you’ve got one damn good reason to watch “Public Enemies”. The cast in this film is top-notch, no doubt about it – Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorf, – but Johnny Depp is way up there.
This is certainly above the average biography-picture and not because it tells a crime story. Some even call it more of a love story than a gangster movie, actually. “Public Enemies” is indeed a bit more atypical for the genre it fits and recreates dramatically, almost impressionistically the America’s unforgettable bank-robberies age (or ‘public enemy’ era) set in another, darker age – the 1930’s Great Depression era. It was this period and gangs like that of John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, or even Bonnie and Clyde that urged the birth of the modern FBI.
The director Michael Mann, best known for previous works like "Heat," "Ali," "Miami Vice" or "The Insider" had some experience with this type of cinema – gangster pictures and that abundantly shows in “Public Enemies”, excellently crafted.
Another thing we can’t overlook is the performance given by Oscar winner Marion Cotillard who plays the girl Dillinger was in love with (in this movie at least), and who really seems to connect with Depp from the first scene and makes you recollect 67’s Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty chemistry in ‘Bonnie and Clyde’.
John Dillinger
Perhaps what gets people to feel unsatisfied at the end of the movie and say it certainly lacks something although they can’t exactly name what ,is (due to) the beauty of the film – you definitely want to see some more character development, some more Johnny Depp as a criminally charming bad-boy , some more Marion Cotillard, some more facts blended with romance…Perhaps that is how America felt when it lost one of its most wicked and at the same time charismatic figures –John Dillinger and perhaps that was Mann’s intention with its work from the beginning.
The movie itself is altogether – ‘all of a sudden’ from start to end, a beautiful piece of work.
The final brush stroke that crayoned the legend of this gangster was probably the way he died – and yeah we get the chance to watch a movie revealing John Dillinger watching ‘Manhattan Melodrama’ the movie that ‘killed’ him, a film in which Clark Gable’s character utters idyllically "Die like you live: all of a sudden" as heading to his death himself.
Plot Summary for Public Enemies (imdb)
This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night.
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