Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The Bank Job
A pretty good heist film "based on real events" in which the government wants to recover some sexy-time pictures of Princess Margaret, so members of MI5 convince a drug trafficker to convince her amateur friends to rob the bank so there can be no connection to the British government. There's also a Michael X figure, a criminal posing as a black radical, who is imperfectly tied in to the whole thing and doesn't quite develop beyond a caricature. It's efficient and for the most part uncompromising, and it touches on modern themes like surveillance, suppression of the media, and corrupt politicos.
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Hey....I saws that with you!
V.S. Naipaul wrote a long essay called Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad" included in his book "The Return of Eva Peron." I believe his novel "Guerillas" is based on same. Don't know if this is the same Michael X as in movie. (And I saw that with you, too!) seefeldt
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