The film keeps telling us that Ellen's son Pidge should grow up to carry a gun like all good American boys, but Baron is just as American and when his country handed him a gun, it put a sniper's sights on its president's head a dozen years later. I'm not even sure the film is aware it's doing this. But the result is fascinating whiplash: so long as it's following Sinatra, it's almost as morally nuanced as noir calls for and actually as gripping as the story of a home invasion assassination plot should be, even if you can pretty much put down cash that an American film from 1954 won't end with a kid bleeding out or a bullet through the president's head.
Haha! I love it! A film that ends up nuanced in spite of itself--and in focused on the villain. Fascinating.
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But the result is fascinating whiplash: so long as it's following Sinatra, it's almost as morally nuanced as noir calls for and actually as gripping as the story of a home invasion assassination plot should be, even if you can pretty much put down cash that an American film from 1954 won't end with a kid bleeding out or a bullet through the president's head.
Haha! I love it! A film that ends up nuanced in spite of itself--and in focused on the villain. Fascinating.