Le Samouraï

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Mar 17, 2019 I liked it very much, I felt that the movie just kind of pulled me in and after it was over it took me a moment to relaize i was just intialy planning to watch it as more something in the back ground. I would say any one interested in a story about a hitman , a determined cop, an d a guild of assasins , should give this one a chance. See more

Mar 12, 2019 This is one of the most influential films of history. Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, John Woo, Johnnie To, David Fincher, Bernardo Bertolucci, Aki Kaurismäki, Takeshi Kitano, Micheal Mann, Georges Lautner, Nicolas Winding Refn, Luc Besson, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen and others have all made films strongly inspired by it. See more

Theodore G Feb 10, 2019 Probably one of the most influential films made. See more

Theodore G Jan 23, 2019 A terribly overrated melancholic thriller. Above all nothin adds up as the plot is so surreal. See more

Theodore L Dec 21, 2018 *Spoiler Warning This is a fantastic film which deepens upon each subsequent viewing due to how deceptively simple it is. While it's a mystery, it's not one in the typical whodunit sense. It's more so in the sense of requiring the viewer to contemplate and make sense of the main character, Jef Costello. He hardly shows any emotion and he doesn't even speak that much throughout the film. Sometimes he shows bits of subtlety when he's in danger, but that's about it. The quotation at the beginning reveals why he acts that way as he finds solitude in his profession, most likely due to the swift skill he carries it out with. Is he truly alone though? There's only 2 people he interacts with throughout the film. One of them is Jane, a woman he uses as an alibi for his various crimes. He seems to have no sexual desires for her, even at the end when she asks him if there's anything she can do for him. It's clear that he doesn't want to have their relationship expand much further than that. He fully knows what he wants of her and gets it. The only person in the film who's really significant to him is Valerie, a piano player who lies to the police superintendent in order to get him off the hook. Since he's puzzled as to why she lied (she never explains why she did it), it seems like she disrupts the solitude he strives for. Even after she's revealed to be related to someone who wants him dead, he's still unable to bring himself to kill her at the film's dramatic ending. The possibilities as to why he spares her include his difficulty in making sense of her motives and the suggestion that he was romantically interested in her in a way which he didn't even understand. The implications that scene gives to the film makes it one of the most memorable endings I've seen in recent years. Topped with a drab color scheme which helps to make Jef feel more alienated, this is easily a great film. See more

Rey L Dec 5, 2018 I'm giving this an extra star because of its influence, but this isn't a great film. Viewers today may find themselves distracted by elements like absurd plot elements and weird police procedures. Still, the 'modern' aesthetic wears mostly as well as Delon's trenchcoat, but, like the car chase in Bullitt--innovative for its time--the subject and execution have advanced considerably. See more

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