Mafia thriller “Black Mass” with Johnny Depp: I am the night – Tagesspiegel

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Johnny Depp plays in “Black Mass” a crime boss who likes to kill with his bare hands. The fulminant quieter appearance could give him the Oscar – after three unsuccessful nominations.

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For the Mafia no laws. All the more stringent they adhere to their own bids. The first commandment is, Thou shalt not speak. Not with your partner, not with the press, and certainly not with the police. The accusation of being a “rat”, ie a traitor is tantamount to a death sentence.

Scott Cooper Mafia thriller “Black Mass” leads dramatically before our eyes what happens to rats. A member of the Irish-born Mobs of South Boston has been drunk and the boss objected. He could become a problem, a traitor. James “Whitey” Bulger, the all-powerful godfather in this part of town, is taking to the small gangster walking down to the river and shoots him in the middle of conversation in the back of the head. . A precise execution without any of emotion

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Cemetery Riverfront

This distance is lacking at a later execution. One of the gang got involved with the police. Bulger tortured and strangled him. Using your hands to kill, which clearly gives him joy. The bodies are buried under a bridge on the Charles River. Throughout the film there arises a real cemetery.

James “Whitey” Bulger is one of those mythical gangsters characters who were a part of pop culture. Until his arrest in 2011 he ranked temporarily in America in second place of the most wanted criminals, just behind Osama bin Laden. “Black Mass” shows how he ascends from the “motherfucker” to “Kingpin”, Boston’s underworld king, as he eliminated the Italian communities of Angiulo family and uses the kind assistance of the FBI.

Huge egghead

For event is “Black Mass” by Johnny Depp, who plays Bulger in a stunning blend of Aasigkeit and somnambulism. Held together the upper body of a leather jacket with high collar, he has gray-brown residual hair slicked back with pomade much and presents an enormous egghead. One hardly recognize him. With his spindly movements Depp recalls a vampire, as he has recently played him in “Dark Shadows”. He gives his orders in a low voice, almost in a whisper, and when someone please, please no interrupt him at his headquarters, the “Triple O’s Lounge”, tells of how the eye of a man is gouged out with a fork, then should this story. Because it could be life-threatening.

The default scene in which the crime boss can carry the shopping bag an old neighbor of his people home, not missing. Only that the woman at the end asks: “When did you actually got out of Alcatraz, Jim?” Three times Johnny Depp was nominated for an Oscar, with “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Finding Neverland” and “Sweeney Todd.” If he again did not get him now for his brilliantly silent appearance in “Black Mass”, that would be at least unfair.

Alone in “Southie”

Depp is one reason the film to see. Unfortunately, he is also the only one. Scott Cooper tends in staging for complacency. His country melodrama “Crazy Heart” Watched the deceleration, but already “eye for an eye”, a thriller about two brothers who decided too little Drive.

What “Black Mass” is missing is a strong antagonist. The FBI agent John Connolly, also a “Southie” from South Boston, makes a pact with the distinguished Boss: Bulger should provide information and remain unpunished for it. The only requirement: no murder, no drugs. Bulger is an informer, adheres not self-evident to the requirements and are only tips that the FBI already has anyway. Connolly, played by Joel Edgerton, submits. He admires the gangster, basks in its splendor, can buy. The rat, which is in this case the police officer.

The wars of the FBI

“Let the FBI our wars lead,” said Bulger, and the FBI throws himself actually scandalous twenty years long for him in the breach. The Godfather has another protector, his brother William M. Bulger, President of the Senate of Massachusetts. Benedict Cumberbatch embodies it as posh hüstelnden Blender. But because remain in “Black Mass” the secondary characters one-dimensional, the weights are rebalanced wrong. It has already the feeling of having the story ever seen. And better. So Clint Eastwood told in “Mystic River” from Boston’s felt, and Ben Affleck showed in “The Town”, which Boston bank robbers threatened, which rest with the mob. They are riddled

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