Having seen many brutal films in my 50+ years of movie-watching (around twenty thousand films or more), I finally get to see the film in which the truly bad man, the business-man, get shot. It was a very long wait indeed. The devil lies and deceives - so it is said in the fairy-tale by the Grim Brothers (When Death was the Godfather or Der Gevatter Tod). We are witnessing a time in which more and more people understand who "the devil" really is: the entity that causes man to raise havoc by deception and intimidation. Intentionally or unintentionally (let's give the story-teller "poetic license") this film delivers clarity on whom we should truly be apprehensive about. The fool with the gun is to be blamed but truly dangerous is the intimidating deceiver in the background, going about his everyday usual "business" in which everyone is a mean to his goals and no more than that. Intentionally or unintentionally - this is still a masterpiece.
Review of A Somewhat Gentle Man
A Somewhat Gentle Man
(2010)
finally the right man gets shot - that alone deserves ten stars
12 March 2011
Warning: Spoilers