#Night moves 1975 x videos movie

These are nitpicks, for sure, because the larger feeling takes over and is commanding. It's not a perfectly nuanced drama in this way. We are led along at times, and frankly told things that might have been better revealed through the plot. Not all of the plot is supported very well.

#Night moves 1975 x videos movie

But clarity has a cost, and the movie will take several surprising turns. So eventually the movie is less about who killed who for this or that reason, and more about this man and his quest for clarity. And we see a kind of generosity that is based on this selfish need to do something right, and all its conflicting meanings. And we even feel him starting to get a grounding for his drifting self amidst these miscellaneous people. There are mysterious motives everywhere, and it's only Moseby we trust. The trail for this daughter takes us to the Florida Keys and out into the ocean. It also feels dated, too, making you wonder if it was really so sexually liberated back then. This was for the sake of an audience still astonished that the movies could do such things (they couldn't before 1967) and it's still kind of raw and edgy in a lasting way. The artifacts of New Hollywood liberation are plain to see: nudity (female only) and a kind of sexed up background even when the plot is going somewhere else. He ends up mixed up in a Dashiell Hammett kind of plot, for sure, looking for the daughter of a rich woman and then getting way over his head. Gene Hackman is terrific, and he plays Harry Moseby, a down and out ex-football player with a drained candor that makes him pathetic as much as likable.

The hero is a kind of watered down Bogart-not as romanticized, and with less exaggerated one-liners (which film noir lovers will miss but which those who like realism will appreciate).

In other words, he killed two people and ruined his life for nothing.Night Moves (1975) An odd convolution of 1940s film noir and 1970s New Hollywood. Maybe the realization was, that he just killed two people, committed an act of terrorism, and is now a fugitive on the run for life, yet, no one paid any attention to his act of terrorism like he thought, people just went on about their daily lives, talking on their cell phones and listening to their iPods. Then, fast forward to the end, he looks up and sees two people in the mirror's reflection, one texting and the other talking on the phone. Maybe he realizes that there's no way he can fit into a society that requires your identity to be so open to the public and is so heavily dependent on technology.Įarlier in the movie, before they blew up the damn and they're sitting in that guy's trailer talking about the revolution, Joey says 'this has got to make people think, right? We're killing off all of the salmon so people can listen to their iPods every second of the day'. Then, as he's filling out the application, he looks into the mirror and sees two shoppers that are both using their cell phones. Prior to walking into the camping store to apply for the job, he disassembled his phone and scattered it around the parking lot. Although, I do think the director intended to leave us in the dark so that we can speculate.and it worked! haha The ending of this was really f*cking with me last night and I finally think I've come up with some conclusions. Can anyone shed a little more light on how the very ending of the film figures into the rest of the story and what it could be trying to tell us or even just what exactly happened there? Or maybe it's just the abruptness and plainness of the ending that confuses me. Did he actually see something in that mirror (did he maybe even imagine Dena)? Are we the audience supposed to see something there too?Įven after the second watch I'm still not sure what to make of the ending or if I maybe even missed something significant. I could get behind Josh's future being left deliberately vague and that might be somewhat fitting to the rest of the film's unagitated yet ominous atmosphere, but at the same time him looking into that mirror made me wonder if anything significant happened there. I don't quite know what to make of this ending. However, when he's about to fill the application form at the clerk's desk, he looks into a ceiling mirror which shows the shop area with a few customers and that's where the film ends. After killing Dena somewhat 'accidentally' Josh ends up somewhere in California and casually applies for a job at an outdoor shop, apparently trying to go under the radar.

The ending of Night Moves came a little abrupt to me.