You become a criminal
and then for you
the only law that matters is the one that you decide
A World War I veteran
and son of a Boston police captain
Joe Coughlin becomes a criminal
during the Prohibition era
But the doubts about his choice don't ever leave him
He falls in love with Emma Gould
the mistress of an Irish mob boss of the gang he belongs to
Joe's gets his life threatened
His father saves him
locking him up in jail
with no discounts
Once free
Joe is sent by boss Maso Pescatore
to Tampa, smuggling alcohol
On the island, he'll fall for another woman
and a conflict erupts between the Ku Klux Klan
and the mafia
To protect himself Joe has to use
weapons for the first time
and respond to a new law
That of the night
Based on Dennis Lehane's novel
Live By Night is Ben Affleck's fourth film as a director
and it confirms his vocation behind the camera
In the movie the actor-author combines the noir codes
with those of drama
the sentimental novel
with action and violence
and an unexpected humor
Inspired by Eastwood
Scorsese, Leone and the Coen brothers
in his work Affleck deals with
issues like class conflict
and racial tensions
without however distinguishing himself in style
which is neither strong nor personal
and without proposing a new point of view
on an already known world
The world of smugglers, speakeasies
femme fatales, guns and urban solitude
where an outlaw in an identity crisis moves
dressed in 'clothes of power'
Stefano Flamia plays a review by Marzia Gandolfi
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