Total Recall: Thank Goodness For Hit Men
Total Recall: Thank Goodness For Hit Men
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SexiVixxEN 316 days ago
It's Black Friday. If you're not at home (and taking precious family time to read RT, for which we thank you), then you're at the mall picking up bargains whilst navigating this week's deluge of wide releases. Among them is Hitman, the tale of a skilled contract killer who finds himself in the midst of deadly political intrigue, and we figure it would be a good time to explore the dark, disreputable cinematic world of the gun-for-hire.
For vicarious thrills, it's hard to top movies about contract killers. There's something fascinating about watching characters that operate in shadowy territory, following their own unyielding codes of ethics, getting into and out of danger on the strength of their wits. Movies about hitmen swim in moral ambiguity, asking audiences to identify with, or even root for, people who are in the business of killing. Cinemagoers have long had obsessions with contract killers -- even if they were one-dimensional characters, so long as they looked cool (Boba Fett, anyone?). But in the past decades, they've been flying out of the margins in a big way, discovering some personality and taking on lives of their own.
For vicarious thrills, it's hard to top movies about contract killers. There's something fascinating about watching characters that operate in shadowy territory, following their own unyielding codes of ethics, getting into and out of danger on the strength of their wits. Movies about hitmen swim in moral ambiguity, asking audiences to identify with, or even root for, people who are in the business of killing. Cinemagoers have long had obsessions with contract killers -- even if they were one-dimensional characters, so long as they looked cool (Boba Fett, anyone?). But in the past decades, they've been flying out of the margins in a big way, discovering some personality and taking on lives of their own.
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