Reception The Offence





less well-known other british pictures (the hill, deadly affair, murder on orient express), unrelentingly somber policier inaugurates newfound force in lumet’s work. story, adapted john hopkins play, abounds in stylistic tics (recurring visual motifs, various events replayed several times, color coding), flashiness pockmarked of director’s earlier work has been pruned hushed, concentrated intensity. likewise, movie looks ahead bathed-in-gray themes of lumet’s later studies of law & order ambivalence -- connery’s pressure-cooker copper, plagued lurid images palpitating inside brain, template protagonists of serpico, prince of city , q & a. connery pinpoints fantastic shadings of bullying, dissatisfaction , self-disgust, matched bannen’s peerless razzing — culminating pounding less liberating purgation guilt transference, christened bannen’s bloodied leer.









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