Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Al Pacino plays a ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Balancing suspense, violence, and humor, the film's depiction of a grand-scale media event craftily dives from the political to the personal, evoking a piercing portrait of a man and his devastating downward tumble as seen through the media circus that Lumet made a career of chronicling. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart yet self-destructive Brooklyn tough whose plan to rob the local bank to fund his male lover's (Chris Sarandon) sex change goes absurdly wrong. Accompanied only by his doltish accomplice, Sal (John Cazale), Sonny realizes that all the money had been removed before his arrival, and decides to kidnap a handful of bank employees instead. As the lengthy August day drags on, Sonny and hordes of local police, led by Sergeant Moretti (Charles Durning), make little progress, and eventually Sonny's wife and lover are brought to the scene. The crowd's sympathy is immediately captured by the charismatic Sonny, whose antagonism with the police is played out before an audience of millions, leading to an inevitably tragic finish.

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＃86 - Attica! Attica!
*這種搶劫太扯啦~
*被當做人質的行員,在電影後半段產生了"斯德哥爾摩症候群"...如John Q (2002)亦觸及這個話題,奇怪,印象中還有其它,John Travolta也演過類似的,下次再查一下~
*何謂斯德哥爾摩症候群? 當你被一個力量長時間壓迫的時候，久而久之你會不小心，或者不自覺地認同壓迫你的力量~
*當年入圍六項大獎哦,包括Best Actor / Best Director / Best Editing / Best Original Screenplay / Best Picture / Best Supporting Actor
*也算是沾上同志的邊哦!