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Monologul lui Jackie Cogan ( Brad Pitt ) in Killing Them Softly : 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.

Alegorie de la un capat la celalalt al celor 90 de minute de vizionare, KTS puncteaza in oglinda unor rafuieli cu tenta mafiota discursurile politicienilor americani in prag de alegeri prezidentiale si la inceputul crizei financiare. Chiar la final - intr-o incercare de a se asigura ca mesajul a ajuns in timpanele privitorilor usor surzi - Jackie, personajul unui Brad Pitt cu cioc, mustata si parul lins pe spate, o zice pe sleau: America is not a country. It's a business. Now pay me! Adicatelea Andrew Dominik , regizor si scenarist, ii zgandareste pe americani acolo unde sunt ei mai sensibili - la orgoliul lor national. O face intr-o maniera tarantineasca, insa mai putin spumos si mai interiorizat decat ultimele QT -uri. Ceea ce - intr-o lume in care epigonii se clatesc stupidut in bai de sange si one linere bombastice - trebuie sa recunosc e reconfortant.  Cand pune coloana sonora Dominik face alegeri excelente gen Heroin de la Velvet Underground . La fel si cand ...