Reservoir Dogs (1992)

The story is deceptively simple: A group of small-time criminals are brought together by a man who has decided how a robbery is to be staged. The robbery itself occurs off-screen. The criminals hold up the bank, but one of them is actually an undercover policeman who sees to it that the police are waiting. The robbery therefore goes completely wrong, but the "arrest" also goes wrong when the undercover cop is accidentally shot. His criminal partner takes him back to the hideout to wait for the others and to find a doctor. When the boss shows up, he is convinced that they have been betrayed and that the man who is an undercover cop is the one who betrayed them. The undercover cop's criminal partner, not believing this, defends him and shoots down the boss, getting shot himself in the process. The undercover cop reveals the truth just as the police

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t in the film is deliberately obscured. The criminals do not know each other's names--each has been given a color as a name. The locale where they meet is never identified, though there are clues that it is the working area of an abandoned mortuary. The precise target of their robbery is not identified, and the robbery itself is never shown. This in itself is a deliberate departure from the standard caper film, which would usually follow the action of the robbery itself closely. In this film, it is the aftermath that is important, the manner in which the conspirators betray and feel betrayed as well as the way they form loyalties and support the underlying code by which they live. Violence is a central motif in the film, and this is intended as a reflection of a certain level of violence in the society which produced it. This is clear because violence is believable and accepted to a degree as part of the landscape. When two of the criminals attempt to hijack a car, the driver pulls her own gun out of the glove compartment and starts shooting--guns are everywhere in this world. The first act of violence takes place off-screen, and we are exposed instead to its aftermath, to the wounded man bleeding profusely in the back
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