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To: karnage
The Barrow Gang's fate was sealed when they shot the first bank security guard, which they knew was a mistake from the get-go. Their every attempt to run away from what they had done was completely unrealistic: their initial attempt to escape in the movie theater ("We're in the money"); Blanche's wistful self-identity as a preacher's daughter; Buck's reliving a youthful experience as he's in his death throes; Bonnie's slow motion, vaseline-on-the-lens visit with her mother; C.W.'s ill-fated visit to his father ...

To me, the movie really isn't about the the historical Bonnie and Clyde at all -- it's about how people create their own inexorable destinies.

Bonnie: What would you do if some miracle happened and we could walk out of here tomorrow morning and start all over again clean? No record and nobody after us, huh?

Clyde: Well, uh, I guess I'd do it all different. First off, I wouldn't live in the same state where we pull our jobs. We'd live in another state. We'd stay clean there and then when we'd take a bank, we'd go into the other state ...


27 posted on 08/13/2007 9:00:57 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: eastsider

The scene you quoted is one of the best in the movie; it shows the fundamental difference between the romance Bonnie imagines, and the reality of the man she has fallen in love with.


37 posted on 08/13/2007 1:35:50 PM PDT by karnage
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