Monday, January 14, 2008

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Although largely a Film Noir, I would most probably categorise it as a caper film, or a heist film as the crux of it centralises around the planning and execution of a crime. Other Noirs would follow the events following a crime, such as White Heat did. 

Either way, it is excellent. The focus is the heist, as mentioned, and the lengthy scene is operated in tense silence - as we are. So intent on hoping the heist go successfully, we dread the moment we know will happen, the next plot point will alter the crime detrimentally and bring down the men.

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