Killing Them Softly (2012) - Movie Review
“Killing Them Softly,” is a stimulation of George V. Higgins’s novel “Cogan’s Trade”. This is a gruesome little offense film that directed by Andrew Dominik. The movie begins with a fidgety boy (played by Scoot McNairy) who robs a mobbed-up poker game with his Australian associate (played by Ben Mendelsohn) and the entrepreneur (played by Vincent Curatola). The most important concern of “Killing Them Softly,” is the forceful fairness to be done by a sad man who does it after having some episodes of philosophical talks with different acquaintances.
Even though Brad Pitt is there as the killer, with a sensible professional called Jackie Cogan, the film has a pleasantly petty mood. “Killing Them Softly” was shot in and around New Orleans but set in a broken-down Boston.
Mr. Dominik, the writer of the movie has carefully conveyed some strong expressions from Higgins’s book “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” to the screen.
Mr. Pitt is fresh and standing apart, moving back from his expressively hot performances. Richard Jenkins plays his boss’s character in “Killing Them Softly” who is a nervous and middle-management criminal. James Gandolfini is also there as a sodden fellow hit man. Ray Liotta plays the man who keeps an eye on the doomed poker game.
With “Killing Them Softly”, Andrew Dominik attempts a desperate and foolish way to pull the story to some kind of modern bearing. even supposing the cars, the approaches and the general griminess of the creation design call to mind a past age, this movie discloses a particular instant in the recent history, to be precise the in the mid of 2008 at what time the American financial system rolled into disaster in the climactic weeks of the presidential movement.
“Killing Them Softly” has a trick toward meaning that results lucrative; otherwise there is nothing else in the film that makes it money-making. Maybe the bankers and speculators who broke the financial system are connected in various ways to the punks and lowlifes who destroy themselves. Moreover perhaps Cogan is the symbolic twofold of Ben Bernanke. Nothing is impossible, because “Killing them Softly” is most concerned with the magic of a meaningfulness atmosphere than anything else.
