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Reservoir Dogs 1) Director: Quentin Tarantino; 2)

1) Director: Quentin Tarantino; 2) Producer: Lawrence Bender; 3) Director of Photography: Andrzej Sekula; 4) Writer: Quentin Tarantino; 5) Film Editor: Sally Menke; 6) Production Designer: David Wasco; 7) Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino, Eddie Bunker, Kirk Baltz, Randy Brooks.

Reservoir Dogs is a film that takes a satiric look at itself, at the genre of the caper film and the dynamics of betrayal and the criminal code seen in such films. The film is extremely violent, which for many viewers may mask the satiric thrust of the story and the way the interplay of characters involves a twisted sense of morality, the so-called "honor among thieves" that here is a palpable presence holding together a group of professional criminals who have nothing else to believe in except that they will be able to rely on each other. As the film unfolds, though, they can rely on nothing in a universe of random events over which they have no control.

The film has an unusual structure which reinforces the fact that it is a film about other films of the same genre, since it assumes that the viewer will know the form and will be able to fill in the blanks to a great extent. The film begins with a breakfast meeting attended by the eight conspirators. Normally, this would be followed by the scene in which the crime is planned, but that scene does not occur until a flashback late in the film. Instead, the story jumps ahead to the aftermath of a robbery that never is presented directly--it is only described by the criminals as they go over what went wrong. The film rather cuts from the introduction of the characters at breakfast to two of the characters returning from the scene of the crime, with one bleeding profusely all over the back seat of the car.

We know that something went wrong. We learn that the police were waiting for the thieves when

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