 5_Bonnie and Clyde
(1967, dir. Arthur Penn)
Best Seen: Warner DVD
Time Code: Chapter 34, 106:37
Having just avoided yet another run-in with the law, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty’s Bonnie and Clyde are enjoying a sunny day, blissfully ignorant of the local police lying in wait to ambush them. We think we know what’s in store, but the savagery of the final shootout is worse than moviegoers of the time could have ever imagined. In a surge of unprecedented violence, the cops riddle the freewheeling duo with bullets from head to toe. The spareness of the setup—a flock of birds taking flight, the look exchanged by the lovers—and the awful silence of the aftermath make it all that much more unsettling.
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