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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Val Kilmer reloading during the shootout in "Heat"
 
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Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

Poohs Packin posted:

I dont know what SMG is. But sure:

The film is lonely. The characters are all isolated from each other and their relationships are falling apart because of it.

The two main characters are for lack of a better word "obsessed" with each other but only share a few minutes together.

LA is portrayed as a vast and impersonal sprawl.

Neil's house is blank and set against waves. It might as well be nowhere.

The love interest story arch is basically two people from completely incompatible backgrounds searching for connection and failing.

Edit: this isn't like, my interpretation. A simple google search yields multiple results from established critics discussing the films themes of lonliness, isolation, etc.

It's obvious through the film that Neil is lonely, and purposefully so. Err, excuse me "alone, not lonely". Anyway, Eady is really in the same situation: she doesn't really have friends. Is isolated, career just kinda not going anywhere.

Neil's downfall was pretty inevitable, and the plot demanded it. He stuck to loyalty to his crew (going for one last job) and his credo (drop everything if the heat comes around the corner). He could have refused his closest friend (Chris Shiherlis) and have been done. He absolutely could have escaped with Eady if he had just gone with her in the car.

Vincent, having killed Neil, is none for the better: he's going through the motions of a recently detonated marriage and will still be stuck as the hunter.

Shiherlis survives but can no likely no longer see Charlene or his son again. He bears the bigger cost than Neil: he lives, but can never see his family again. He's forced to live by Neil's credo.

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Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

 Looks like everyone here chose to memory hole the Miami Vice movie.

Probably for the best.

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