White Heat1949

Talk about your baby boys – Cagney takes the cake here as a psychopathic gangster with a seriously perverse mother complex. A gangster classic.

绝对的大片。包含了一切警匪片黑色电影的元素，涵盖了各种跌宕起伏的剧情内容：劫火车，抢银行，扮卧底，混监狱，家庭伦理，红杏出墙，兄弟反目，浴血枪战......各种惊险刺激应接不暇。并且早在四十年代便涉及到了心理学分析层面，向观众展现出了“恋母情结”这一类型倾向，这种驱动力又使人物塑造和剧情推动得以圆满与合理。每一个情节都密不可分，环环相扣。每一个人物也是那么鲜活，立体的呈现于观众面前。最后魅力担当大反派在烈火中永生，大喊出那句：“top the world”时真是足够震撼，也让人唏嘘不已。这部半个多世纪前的电影，现在看来也丝毫不落伍且节奏剪辑堪称顶级，做到全程无尿点，甚至以目前的电影制作水准加顶级名导明星配置都无法复刻出这部杰作。

That the movie presents Cody as so iredeemably destructive, yet somehow makes you feel for him anyway, is the kind of storytelling magic that’s hard to explain or quantify. Thanks to the writing, the filmmaking, and especially Cagney's performance, you end up caring for this horrendous man, or at least understanding his pain and the demons that drive him.