Director: Andrew Dominik
Writers: Andrew Dominik, Geroge V.Higgins (Novel)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy, James Gandolfini
Jackie Coogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Film is an adaptation of George V.Higgins novel 'Coogan's Trade' set in 2008 during the Obama campaign and election. The news of Great Financial Collapse of 2008 runs in the background and the the happenings in the film are metaphorically compared to the events that led to the crisis. It is very funny and shot very stylistically. The best film of 2012 from what I have seen.
So there with Coogan's monologue in the end:
'My friend, Thomas Jefferson is an American saint because he wrote the words 'All men are created equal', words he clearly didn't believe since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He's a rich white snob who's sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So, yeah, he writes some lovely words and aroused the rabble and they went and died for those words while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community? Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fuckin' pay me'.
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