Underneath (1995)

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   Zuma

   In the past, films added to criterion releases as extras have not be included in the Criterion list. This should not be on the official list. 10 years 1 month ago
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   shitmovies

   Pretty solid heist flick. Certainly better than Ocean's. Ending was kinda dumb faux-Coen, but I admired the experimental sleeping third act, even if it didn't quite work. 1 year 6 months ago
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   Siskoid

   In Steven Soderbergh's The Underneath, Peter Gallagher plays a gambling addict who gets a job with an armored car company, and finds himself making a wrong-headed deal for love and money with the only crook he knows. A simple enough noir story, but as Soderbergh often does, he takes relatively simple material and elevates it with directorial experimentation. Though it works visually, it doesn't always work thematically. Camera shots that call attention to themselves, stark colored filters, and unconventional editing don't always seem motivated by the story, at least on first viewing analysis, and it may be easy to simply chalk it off to this being one of his first films. I've often read negative reviews of Soderbergh's work claiming that characters are psychologically under-written. The two criticisms clash however. Soderbergh's movies don't over-explain character motivation, they infer it, and often create psychological mood through those directorial tricks. A blue filter may reference a feeling, while constant repetition of the lottery motif holds the key to Gallagher's addiction, something you notice because he does, not because it is important to the plot. You have to pay attention to get more than the plot out of this film. Its richness lies... underneath. 8 years 9 months ago

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