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movie review - The Town

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2011.07.15

This is an interesting bank heist movie that takes the unusual step of showing you the back-story of the robbers. This makes the social castes and prevalence of syndicate crime in Boston very clear. It's an action film but not a stupid one and I enjoyed it.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

—Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time