His existence is distilled to near-insignificance. Above all, this is a story of America — more precisely white America — in a time when the first black President is ushering in a new era of hope.
Is the hope strong enough to bear the burden of history? On the other hand, it is a time of despair, marked by a widespread economic collapse in the country. In the end, Jackie goes back to Driver to receive his payment. Jackie previously negotiated 15k per head, but he is only getting Driver gives him the reason that recession has hit the market, and Dillon has thus lowered the rates.
Dillon is a person everybody talks about, but he seems to live in the clouds. The business must go on, even though some people may disappear from the picture.
The Nobel-laureate economist was cleared to perform an experiment on the privatization of Chile. The rest of the world would soon follow, bringing us to the present moment. In effect, capitalized American soldiers are now fighting private wars in far-flung nations.
Therefore, the words of Jackie hits too close to reality when he says that America is not a country, it is rather a business.
Jackie is, in many ways, a prophet for the broken generation. In the last scene, Jackie divulges to a spirited Driver that Dillon is dead. Dillon, the man running the operation, the mafia mogul, has been constructed mostly through other characters in the film.
Secondly, Jackie enlists a fellow hitman named Mickey James Gandolfini for assistance, but discovers that the man is now drinking heavily and simple unreliable. Mickey is also part of the problem because he's taking money but laughs at the concept of accountability. After a revealing hotel room conversation, Jackie receives clarity and informs Driver that Mickey needs to go, and needs to go NOW. Jail will be good for him, just like so many-real life bankers who manipulated the system to their advantage and lost perspective.
There's humanity left in Mickey, evidenced by his sob stories, but he's a different man. Jackie even admits that he wanted the version of Mickey from "two years ago. To save himself, Jackie needs to do all the dirty work. He knows how stupid some of the low-level criminals can be, evidenced by remarks to Driver about their acquaintance Kenny Gill Slaine , who provides intel about Frankie and Russell.
After Jackie sets up Mickey and kills Trattman during a stylized sequence, he moves down the chain. Squirrel is killed for orchestrating the Trattman robbery. Frankie is killed for being naive and unreliable; someone who could potentially create even more problems by talking too much. For Jackie, it's just business. He's restoring faith in the system, and faith in the people who hire him. And it's no accident that Jackie uses the line "Yes, you are" to address people like Frankie who claim to be unsure about certain facts, as it's a phrase that connects to Barack Obama 's campaign slogan "Yes, we can.
After killing Frankie, Jackie has balanced out his underworld community, and establishes himself as someone who creates and inspires change. Still, he's fully cognizant of the reality that business colleagues will use American Dream concepts against him, just like real-world businessman tried to spin financial situations to their advantage, hoping that many Americans were too naive to notice the fine print, or simply didn't care all that much.
When Jackie takes out his first yahoo with a short-range handgun, Dominik draws out the death with slow-motion effects, emphasizing the visual poetry of shattered glass, spattered blood and dreary drizzling rain. Too much time. I can appreciate a slow and deliberately paced film, but his conceit — mob politics is a metaphor for Washington politics! Email: jserba mlive. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.
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Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Asked 5 years, 11 months ago. Active 5 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 10k times. Did we watch it happen or no? I never really saw Dillon much in the film. Improve this question. Connor Leech Connor Leech 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Jackie : I don't seen nobody else here.
Do you? Driver : So he probably won't be able to handle anything for a while. Jackie : There's only thirty in there The price is fifteen.
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