tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post6018783317733907121..comments2024-03-24T14:03:33.932-07:00Comments on Every 70s Movie: The Offence (1972)By Peter Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385971732301020652noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-5991343497829018362022-12-02T08:31:51.484-08:002022-12-02T08:31:51.484-08:00Forgot to mention that I didn't like the endin...Forgot to mention that I didn't like the ending either, and couldn't see why the hell the cop would let the suspect even get to him like that. squeakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05605962176523261516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-86450105744679413982022-12-02T08:30:29.123-08:002022-12-02T08:30:29.123-08:00The Offense is one of three films Sean Connery did...The Offense is one of three films Sean Connery did with Sidney Lumet, who was not only one of the best film directors New York ever produced, but one of the best American directors, period. The other two were The Hill and The Anderson Tapes---Connery actually gave an incredible performance in The Hill, which is very much worth watching, and interestingly enough, Ian Bannen also played one of the soldiers in it. The Offense is a good film, but I also think part of the reason it wasn't big is because it dealt with the matter of child molestation, when films were just beginning to deal directly with the subject, and it didn't help that the main villain is possibly a pedophile. Plus the entire film has a downbeat mood and a dark film noir from the get-go, which made sense given the topic it dealt with. So it's not hard to see why people weren't exactly running out to see this, even if Connery was starring in it, while still in his prime at the time. squeakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05605962176523261516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-17380074070400346532017-12-05T18:22:00.242-08:002017-12-05T18:22:00.242-08:00I've never had the opportunity to ask police ...I've never had the opportunity to ask police what they would or wouldn't do. I do know others who have seen them do things that amount to war crimes. Some of them are dead now.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17050780812342957714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-6470361749646710272017-08-14T12:51:32.801-07:002017-08-14T12:51:32.801-07:00This movie sold us gritty realism and a plausible ...This movie sold us gritty realism and a plausible story line right up until the final flashbacks, beginning with the confrontation between Ian Banned and Sean Connery. At that point, the film bogged down in literary, psychoanalytic theory and ditched its realistic tone. Connery's cop actually broke down and begged the subject he was interrogating to "help" him with his own inner demons. As if any real cop would do this!!! And he beat the subject to death because the subject correctly identified some of the cop's own fantasies. In reality, no conversation between cop and subject would enter this territory. Nor would other cops leave a subject alone with a brother who was slowly losing his grip, which the other cops noticed and remarked on. A very unfortunate ending to an engrossing film--C+ from me. Lumet got literary fiction, psychoanalysis, and movie-making all mixed up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com