#194: The town , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir

Genre: Drama/Drame Annee/Year: 2010 Format: Blu Ray The Town. A movie with Ben Affleck as director and main actor. Some doubts already? Well let's see where he takes us. Ben recounts the story of the folks from Charlestown a suburb of Boston where many people lead rough lives and often turn to robbery from father to son. The movie depicts the relation between the different folks from that town. Those taking advantage of others, those ahppy being there and those thinking of leaving it all behind and moving to a new life. Ben's character, Doug Macray, is in this last category and finds out the hard way that wanting to leave is not as easy as doing so. He falls in love with a girl named Claire , played by Rebecca hall, who was a victim in the latest bank heist his team performed, which makes the story even more complex and interesting. Other actors to mention are Pete Postlethwaite who died recently and Jeremy Renner as Doug's best friend(The hurt locker) and Chris Cooper one of my preferate actors. A solid movie with good acting and a good story with enough action to keep you interested all the way through. This movie is a third of the way between a social study, a love story and an action movie. There is something for everyone and it plays at many level. Good work ben! The Town. Un film réalisé par Ben Affleck et dont il est l`acteur principal. PAs sûr vous dîtes? Et bien voyons. Le film est solide et comporte une histoire bien intéressante d`un quartier mal fâmé de Boston ou les gens sont souvent des bandits et surtout des voleurs de banque de génération en générations. le film focus sur les relations entre les personnes y vivant et en ce sens presque une étude sociologique. Le fil est aussi un film d`amour avec notre acteur principal Doug Macray qui tombe en amour avec une fille nommée Claire (Rebecca hall) qui était une caissière impliquée dans leur dernier vol de banque. Situation complexe et intéressante. Mais ce n`est pas tout... ce film est surtout un bon film d`action avec plusieurs scènes a haute adrénaline comme le vol de banque du début et celui ou ils volent la caisse du stade des Red Sox après la joute. Tension, morts et poursuite automobile sont au rendez vous. Le film est un savant mélange bien dosé et qui plaira a plusieurs. À noter: une des dernièrs rôles de Pete Postlethwaite décédé l`an dernier; il rendait toujours un super jeu au gars tough. Aussi excellentes performances de Jeremy Renner (Hurt locker) et d`un de mes acteurs préférés Chirs Cooper dans le rôle du père incacéré de Doug. Bon travail Ben! Great quotes: Doug MacRay: I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people. James Coughlin: ...Whose car we takin'? ... Fergus 'Fergie' Colm: You're going to do this for me, or I'm going to clip your nuts, like I clipped your daddy's. Doug MacRay: Don't talk about my father. Fergus 'Fergie' Colm: Son, I knew your daddy. He worked for me for years. Years. Then he wanted his own thing. You play the horses? You know they either geld the horse with a knife or with chemicals. When your Daddy said no to me, I did him the chemical way. Gave your mother a taste. Got the hook into her. Ahh, she doped up good and proper. Hung herself with a wire, on Melnea Cass. And you, running around the neighborhood looking for her. Your daddy didn't have the heart to tell his son that he was looking for a suicide doper who was never coming home. If there's a Heaven son, she ain't in it. ... James Coughlin: You grew up right here! Same rules that I did. ... James Coughlin: If we get jammed up, we're holding court on the street. ... Doug MacRay: We're fucked if we see a helicopter, we're fucked if we see SWAT. We see a cruiser, stop, take out the engine blocks, keep movin'. No one needs to get hurt. James Coughlin: Yeah, these guards like to test you, though. They wanna get hurt for ten dollars an hour, don't get in the way. ... Doug MacRay: No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done. So I got a long road. But I know I'll see you again - this side or the other. ... Doug MacRay: Not the way I planned it, but for the first time in my life, I'm leaving this city. Maybe if I go, I can stop looking. Link: http://thetownmovie.warnerbros.com/dvd/ Rating perso: 7.5/10