Death, With a Score by Hank Paulson

摘要

In Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt plays the grim undertaker of America's hopes and dreams. Walking smoothly through his tasks as a hitman for the mob, the actor is often accompanied by audio snippets of the political fallout from the 2008 financial crisis. Speeches by George W. Bush, Hank Paulson, and Barack Obama serve as the background drone to his spectacular violence, suggesting an uneasy connection between the plot's mob robbery gone wrong and an economy circling the drain.