Public enemies....kulsoom

Public enemies.

Official website

http://www.publicenemies.net/

Official Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xOgO7_eT8

Reviews

http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=136004

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5734632/Public-Enemies-review.html

http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/87289/public-enemies.html

The film public enemies fits into our hybrid genre perfectly and gets the very best out of the gangster and romance genre’s. The films website has an excellent theme of the dark settings as there are in the film. Their audience would enjoy the site as they provide all information about the film e.g. as it was based on a true story it tells you the history, a full profile of every character in the film and directors profile. They also give the audience an option to order the DVD with special features.

The trailer from the very beginning has you hooked to watch the rest, an incredible soundtrack to drag the audience further in and stay focused as the story begins to unfold. Once the very vague version of the plot is told, the quick shots of all the action kicks in along with some romance scenes. The film is set in 1930’s America as it was just undergoing the great depression so the setting is quite old yet we are inclined to feel it is new as this is the period when cars, phones and industry where becoming popular. They end the trailer with the classic pulling of trigger and then the name of the film. Throughout the trailer there was a on-screen narration which is effective to have in gangster films.

The reviews of this film vary in may ways, some highly criticise it and the director saying he has produced too many films with this genre and has not dwelled deeper, other critics have highly praised this movie saying in a time where most movies are about robotic monsters trying to destroy the world, this comes as a surprise into a period of American history which is often over-looked (the gangsters during the depression),

Overall I have chosen this film as a good focus point for my group as not only does it contain both our genre’s, it shares some of our ideologies of a person who is bad turning good. In our case it is reversed, however the same concept applies, also the media language is quite inspiring considering how they have directed and produced it.