Reservoir Dogs (1992)
The beginning is a non-start. The crew is met, carefree. The actors chatting, drinking and joking. Almost everyone wears a black suit, white shirt and dark tie. It seems to be a break between shots of the cast.
A clue indicating the abnormality of this group. Our point of view, the view of the camera is always behind the characters. Peering, circulating around the table, we can eavesdrop on their conversations. Strictly no show us, look at their faces, their expressions, hear the tone of their voices.
What would happen if they see us? Or rather, they may get angry and become dangerous?
It is probably premature to respond with a clear “yes.” Let us be content to know that rarely, during the film, we have the opportunity to see them so peaceful and harmless.
During this lunch, the conversation falls on Like a virgin, and Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino in the role also as an actor, or Mr. Brown in the role of Quentin Tarantino?) The company offers its interpretation of the song. The story of a woman who loves the good sex that during one of the many relationships experience, feel the pain the first time when he put an end to his virginity. Pain back to the start of sexual activity. Broadening the perspective, pain as the beginning of any new adventure. Fatigue and pain in order to tread new paths, unreachable without that first effort. The song, told by Mr. Brown, with an approach far removed from what could be a staid music critic, it helps to get into the spirit of carefree table.
The film has not yet begun for them. Little green bag George Baker accompanies their entrance onto the street. One begins to understand the identity of these men. They are all quite elegant but Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) and the beautiful Eddie (Chris Penn). Walk bold, shiny crows in the sunlight, wearing sunglasses. Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) crunches a toothpick. Those who smoke and who looks around, safe behind the blacks sunglasses which provide the boundary between the scene in the room, where it was possible to read the eyes of the actors and the scene of today, boosted by slow motion, in which the characters behind the screen of a shady black lens , are impenetrable.
After the non-beginning of the beginning, finally begins Reservoir Dogs, and begins with a scene that will be filmed by Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros in (even if the work before the Mexican instead of a man, there will be poorly accommodated a dog dying in the back seat of a car in the race).
white seats with red marks, shadows of the puddle of blood on the shirt, Mr. Orange (Tim Roth). The car is headed by Mr. White, sweat can wash the interior of the car.
Mr. White is busy talking with his friend that Dripped Blood more than a steak. Speaks to him to keep him alive. The two members of the team participated in an event out of the ordinary. Or, given the times we live in, absolutely ordinary. Ordinary or not ordinary, the event clashed against the rules of the civil system.
Mr. Orange, with lead in the body is dragged by his friend in a store, meeting place of the band. Mr. Orange looks at his friend with the eyes of those who fear to die. See my colleague aware of having before the last human being that could see before they disappear forever. The two, who had bravely marched in slow motion sequence, can be found now in the same pool of blood under the same conditions as any man in dying, with the same consciousness of any human being observing his fellow bleed a few inches away . In stock arrives
Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) and the situation becomes more linear contours: Mr. Brown and Mr. Blue (Eddie Bunker) were killed by the policemen and the wounding of the dying M. Orange has been fleeing from police.
also emerges as Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), who, during the robbery at a shop in diamonds, would foolishly opened fire at civilians and police.
This event is not represented by Quentin Tarantino. The event of the film is the bloody clash that occurred during the armed robbery. With a series of flashbacks, the director shall provide all information concerning the preparation of the robbery: the recruitment (which is also the introduction of the characters) of all men needed for the mission, the plan and the choice of colored codenames (toll in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by Joseph Sargent). In addition to the “first event”, the film also depicts the “after event”, complete with a wounded Mr. Orange by a woman who stood by subtracting the car to flee from police. But the event remains invisible. He knows everything about it, preparation and consequences, but do not see it. Why?
for this event is represented. It is pure evil. It’s the battle of life that leads to death. Absolute evil that can not be accounted for if represented, would be reduced and humanized by his absoluteness. The whole film revolves around this event, which is the center.
nuclei are two irreconcilable sides. The bad guys have them, the team that has robbed the store of diamonds. The good are always represented at the end of life, as the “cop” scarred and tortured by Mr. Blonde, Mr. Orange as a cop infiltrator whose job is to facilitate the arrest of the gang boss, Joe Cabot. Two well-designed mid
: good guys versus bad guys. Feel bad that a robbery, Mr. Brown and Mr. Blue forgiveness but unable to take possession of the diamonds, and good guys who try to curb the misdeeds of opponents, often with negative results (civilians killed during the robbery, police tortured and killed, Mr. Orange wounded).
At this point, the question is absolutely good are good? And the bad guys are absolutely bad? To answer serves a term of court. By way of review, Quentin Tarantino puts the event, the unrepresentable, the bloody clash that occurred during the robbery.
None of the human world seems utterly evil as the event. Only Mr. Blonde, which binds the poor policeman in a chair rubbing his face and sliced \u200b\u200bhis ear, can be put close to absolute evil, and, in fact, the character belongs to the most inhuman human. But also its transformation in the direction of absolute evil, as made when the crowd was about to burn alive the cop tied to a chair, is blocked by Mr. Orange, who is the last bit of energy to save the victim of torture. Represent what would have been there too but that should not be seen. The absolute evil.
The core of Reservoir Dogs is not the social order and classification good and bad. The centerpiece is the mixture of two poles: good and evil. The focal point is Mr. Orange, a policeman charged with infiltrating the gang of thugs. In the social stage
Mr. Orange and the band are the polar opposite of Joe Cabot. Before beginning their mission, the cop is scared and is encouraged to just “believe in everything you say because you are a super cool.” To cope with these criminals, perverts the very nature and his personality splits in two opposite directions. He trains for acting like an actor. It reconstructs and plasma differently, moving away from its nature as a man of the law.
attending the criminals, Mr. Orange feels increasingly at ease, laughing at jokes, and integrates more closely with its enemies. When a true friend, a black policeman, asked him “tell me more of Cabot,” he answers without hatred and contempt for the maximum of the enemy “do not know, is a cool guy, it’s fun, is funny in its own way” and , referring to the Fantastic Four, “The Thing, that son of a bitch looks like the Thing.”
Conclusion: in the store, which is already present Mr. White, Mr. Pink, Mr. Orange and the beautiful Eddie, Joe Cabot arrives. Are you sure the light is Mr. Orange, “is the only one I did not trust 100%.”
Mr. Blonde was killed by Mr. Orange, temporary savior of scarred cop (Eddie in turn killed by the beautiful, angry over the death of the wicked friend). Joe Cabot
want to shoot Mr. Orange, the man who betrayed him.
Mr. White points his gun at his head, asking him not to kill the connection because it is convinced that he was not betraying the gang. Eddie does the same with the good Mr. White. It is the triangle of death. Shooting. Mr. White shoots Joe Cabot, Eddie beauty shoots Mr. White and Mr. Orange
, floor, shoot Eddie beauty.
Mr. Pink, save, exit with the loot, but is immediately stopped by police who wait and outside the store, maybe shoot him.
Mr. White, but wounded alive, creeping closer to Mr. Orange. He was opposed to the will of the herd, risking his life for a friend who is innocent.
two men are poles apart, belonging to two orders enemies. Framed by gang members who have died, rest in the same pool of blood, wounded in the same way. The only difference is that one knows the truth, Mr. Orange, the other is convinced that he had just saved the life of his friend.
Everything is going the right way, from the standpoint of the law: Mr. Orange is wounded but alive and in a few minutes to get the police to arrest the ultimate villain, Mr. White, Mr. Orange and bring to the hospital.
twist. Mr. Orange confesses to Mr. White, the man who has just saved my life. “I’m sorry, I’m a cop,” he says with pain. This pain told by Mr. Brown during the exposure of Like a Virgin. Pain that opens up new roads. If the unrepresentable, the shooting event, was the collision between good and evil, and this is the second event of the film: the good that he can no longer judge your side. The good that does not see the harm. Continuing to say “I’m sorry, Mr. White approached him with a hug, cried and points the gun at his temple. Join the police and ordered Mr. White to throw the gun and surrender. Mr. White does not want us to hear. Shooting. Mr. White is killed. It is not clear whether Mr. Orange and Mr. White was killed by the police or if it was faster than the trigger of the white hyena. Probably Mr. Orange confession to Mr. White, called for the death, because he had betrayed his friend. Closing credits to the tune of Harry Nilsson’s Coconut.
This is the key scene of the film. Mr. Orange had completed the perilous operation to infiltrate. He knew that soon it would have been saved by his police colleagues. So what’s behind the suicide confession? There is a relationship of friendship that develops between the men, a report by the overflowing social anchors. Mr. Orange had understood what he describes Fabrizio De André The War of Piero. A soldier is home to the enemy soldier in the house of humanity. The two characters are a dog and a cat, a policeman and a thief, who played together. Nobody expected this game could become the biggest player (Mr. Orange). When the game was ending, and Mr. Orange to return to the social role of policeman, “Piero novel,” perhaps surprised by their own inner transformation, he decided to stay there, to rest with the friend who had saved his life on the bloody floor of a warehouse. Together forever. Unfortunately my friend did not want to return the courtesy.
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