Gangster Story

Two Outlaws, Blasting Holes In the Screen. Reconsidering “Bonnie and Clyde,” 40 Years After It Changed the Rules

THE story of "Bonnie and Clyde" has been told so many times that it has acquired the patina of legend. It's the kind of historical fable that circulates to explain how the world once was and how it came to be the way it is now: a morality tale in which the wild energies of youth defeat the stale certainties of age, and freedom triumphs over repression.
I'm not talking about the adventures of the actual Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who robbed and shot their way through Texas, Oklahoma and adjacent states in the bad old days of the Great Depression. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (12288 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 12 agosto 2007