Bonnie and Clyde

A man and a woman in a life without rules.

They die riddled.

This was really great!

While there are movies made before this that portend the coming of New Hollywood (I think Seconds is most notable), this movie to me feels like the opening snare of Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone." It cracks like a bullwhip and demands attention. It's a beautiful, lurid, shockingly violent work that also spends time with the humanity of its characters (almost uncomfortably so.) Stellar work all around (except Parsons, who I found supremely irritating...I can't believe she was the only one to win an acting Oscar in the ensemble. My votes would have gone to Dunaway and especially Pollard.)

Excellent movie about the life and death of the infamous criminal couple.

Good performances and an entertaining plot makes this a fun watch. Surprising good shoot outs and bloody effects. It's crazy to think how easy it was to steal cars and escape the cops. And what was up with Gene Wilder's character?

Debut of Gene Wilder. the rest is history

Like the cars, like the southern accents, like the insights into the time of the great depression, like Dunaway, like Bonnie, like the drama and the tragedy, like the outlaw/road story, like the sub-machine rifles. Like all the parts discussing sex (problems), marriage, (posthumous) fame and the possibility of returning to (or, in an alternate reality, living) a regular law-obeying life. Outright love the first 10 minutes or so. How bored Bonnie is initially pulled into his criminal and violent orbit is fascinating.

Could have been a much better movie w/o all this out of place slapstick scenes, strange car chase scenes (it's not only the age of this movie: I guess it always felt strange) and some of the dumb hillbilly gang members that ultimately contributed to their tragic fate. Still, an influential classic that is entertaining even decades later.

PS: if there was ever a single reason attributed to the introduction of ignition locks this grand theft auto spree might just be it.

Born without a penny to their names, nor the promise of a future worth living, a pair of depression-era twenty-somethings find motivation in one another. Emboldened by their romance and certain about their invulnerability, the pair sets off to get rich quick via a string of car thefts and brazen, bloody daylight robberies. Joined by a small trio of accomplices, tales of their exploits soon capture the public imagination in an age when many felt hopeless, crushed and discarded by the system.

This film brings us up-close and personal with the title characters and their little family, learning about their various quirks and tics between heists. Like most young adults, Bonnie and Clyde’s self-confidence is both a blessing and a curse. Their opportunistic nature makes them difficult to track but also traps them in some very sticky situations. They don’t intend to commit mass murder, but when the other shoe drops (and it often does), sometimes their guns are the only way out and hey, better you than me. An experienced criminal, Clyde knows the score, but Bonnie sees their cross-country escapade as a sort of childish fantasy, never truly recognizing how much danger she’s in until the numbers catch up and the situation grows dire. They’re just kids, playing at being adults, but the law ain’t messing around.

Looking back almost sixty years later, the amount of blood and violence depicted in _Bonnie and Clyde_ hardly seems excessive. It can be harsh and brutal at times, sure, but these doomed lovers chose a harsh, brutal life together and the film portrays that appropriately. Nobody’s ever robbed a bank with cap guns and candy apples, after all, or ditched the police by blowing kisses through a window. Way back in 1967, however, this was held up as evidence of our decaying moral fabric and many contemporary reviews were outraged. What kind of cinema will our children be watching, should this awful trend towards graphic bloodshed continue? I’d hate to see their reactions to Tarantino.

Fucked up people doing fucked up stuff. Boredom, loneliness, and hopelessness can lead one to desperate actions.
Only thing I didn’t like is that many scenes seemed silly. But the way it ends… oh boy.