The Killer

I haven’t watched it. I think I was slightly nasty to it when it was first shown at Venice because some violet incidents in the news here around the time so I wasn’t very keen to some “look how cool looks violence” flick! Lol

Netflix is promoting it a lot! I wish they had done the same with Wes Anderson’s shorts. They were slightly better received and, in theory as PG rating films, easier to sell. But I guess, at the end, they were more “daring”. I mean, violence sells and Anderson actually risked with the all characters narration style.

The Killer seems to be influenced a lot on Melville’s Le Samurai but something that admire of Melville is that even when his characters were hyper cool criminals, there was always something disturbing and disgusting on them. Even his resistance characters in Army of the Shadows were like that and that’s why it was a very polemic film at the time (He was a real resistance fighter during the Second World War so he kinda knew what he was talking about and he didn’t romanticized their heroism). I think Tarantino copy him a lot but Tarantino’s brilliance is always very superficial. Melville, again, strongly suggested the nastiness and amorality below the “coolness”. After all, he was a “moral” filmmaker with “bad” characters finding their punishment or repenting and sacrifice themselves.