"Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, and you go left
It’s not something people hear about
Falls on deaf ears mostly
But this particular one’s been over 20 years in the making
No small matter
Requires a lot of planning
It involves a lot of people
People connected only by the slightest of events
Like whispers in the night
in that place that never forgets even when those people do."
-(just) Smith a.k.a. Mr. Goodkat/Lucky Number Slevin-
Damn i like this movie.
Magnificent cast, smart dialogue,
good shots, unboring storytelling,
nice photography, good scores
and mostly
a beautiful smart twisted ending.
haha, what the hell i’m blabbering about,
eventhough i’m not too familiar with the director’s name, Paul McGuigan,
LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN is a thing.
must watch, if you said you like smart films.
those quote rise at the beginning of the movie,
at first i don’t care what it was saying, just some kind of stupid dialog,
that i don’t have to understand to get the story of the movie.
but then, after finished watching, still with the amazement because the ending,
i watch this movie again (whoa, it makes me watch it twice…)
haha, those quote explain the rest of the movie.
especially in the second paragraphs.
this movie is about ‘this particullar one’s’ that based on Kansas City Shuffle.
and by the second watch, i get how good was this film.
by experience, in my opinion, a good film is a film with less coincidence
like when a cop chasing a runaway bad guy, suddenly from nowhere citizen pass by with their car
and the cop easily show his/her badge and take the car chase the bad guy.
or like when in teenage movie at a romantic ending, suddenly a heavy rain pour down.
and etc, all those stupid coincidence.
or should i call, a stupid movie cliche.
but in lucky number slevin, even the opening credits scene have their meaning.
why the background was paper book,
why benny killed by a baseball ball,
why henry, max’s kid, smart enough (according to his dad) and like baseball,
[careful, i'm spoiling...]
why slevin had an ataraxia,
why must be kelavra,
[hehe, funny thing, if you get the notch]
okay, enough about the crap,
i should’ve been sleep now.
in less than twenty hours, i’ll be in different island
and i even not yet start to packing,
while bem already packed and ready to fly
huah, goodnight…
here’s another quote to close this post:
"How do you get to two men that can’t be gotten to?
You get them to come to you.
But to do that… i needed a name.
And where do you find names?
In books.
And who has books?"
-Slevin Kelavra/Lucky Number Slevin-
