Cogan - Killing Them Softly

Andrew Dominik deliver's a smart, politically outraged spin on George V Higgins' 1974 Mob-against-The Man novel

Wreathed in a fragrant cloud of cigarette smoke and the embers of the American Dream, Andrew Dominik's smart follow-up to 2007's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a blunt clip around the ear of contemporary US politics. Stripped from George V Higgins' 1974 Mob-against-The Man novel, 'Cogan's Trade', Killing Them Softly shifts the story from Boston to New Orleans circa 2008, where the wounds left by Katrina have yet to be infected by the looming financial crisis. The presidential election is in full swing, and as the city retches from the stink of its own decay, optimistic campaign slogans such as 'Hope' and 'Change' pour from car stereos and television sets like sick jokes made at the expense of the forgotten underclass. [...]

di Adam Woodward, articolo completo (2951 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Little White Lies 20 settembre 2012