“What is that American promise? It’s a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have obligations to treat each other with dignity and respect,” Barack Obama said at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. And that section of the speech opens Andrew Dominik‘s seething “Killing Them Softly,” as he cuts the audio between white noise and the silent black title screen, signifying the blind emptiness of Obama’s statement and the thematic current he’ll be taking for the film. We are not a changed nation. We are not a nation of equals...
Killing Them Softly - Cannes 2012
Killing Them Softly (2012) | Dir. Andrew Dominik
Killing Them Softly (2012) | Dir. Andrew Dominik
Killing Them Softly (2012) | Dir. Andrew Dominik
Killing Them Softly (2012)
Director: Andrew Dominik DoP: Greig Fraser