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The Killer
UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA · 2023

The Killer

David Fincher
isolation and alienation moral ambiguity self-deception obsession and control redemption and consequence
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Synopsis

After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

Cinema Atlas Connection
The influence of John Woo's The Killer is there, in the way they're shot, the camera's often quite high and swooping.

It's certainly an antihero, but there's a nobility to him that I think in a weird way makes him similar to Alain Delon's character in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï.

— David Fincher  ·  Netflix Tudum: David Fincher on The Killer, His Return to Cinema, and Why It's the 'Antidote' to James Bond
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This Film Influenced

→ The Matrix (1999) → John Wick (2014) → Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) → Face/Off (1997)

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