Killing Them Softly (2012) feels Wildly Appropriate for 2020.

I’ve been rewatching this movie all week and I can’t help but feel like the movie is better suited to 2020 than it was to 2012. The movie was filmed in post-Katrina New Orleans and is about some small time hoodlums who rob a mob-run card game and are then targeted by hitmen who are given directives by older white men who may or may not have political connections.

To quote the director Andrew Dominik “it was the story of an economic crisis, and it was an economic crisis in an economy that was funded by gambling—and the crisis occurred due to a failure in regulation.”

The movie deals with economic collapse in a time of crisis, politics and the divisiveness of politics during an election year, corruption, and to a lesser extent it deals with race in America, and a failing healthcare system. At first glance this is a movie about some criminals and mobsters doing what they do best, but behind it all it seems to be an indictment of the nature of America as a country that is run more like a business than a county, where the working class are underpaid, undervalued, and have no real hope for a future.

Submitted March 28, 2020 at 08:57PM by BobDylanBlues https://ift.tt/2QQ0KZG