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Harry Brown
Harry brown is an action thriller movie and is also Michael Caine’s first lead role movie for years and has turned out as a good movie.
Harry brown follows an old age pensioner, played by Michael Caine who is an ex marine, showing you through his eyes the underground of gangs, as in the violence, guns, drugs and murders.
The way the crimes are shown are more exaggerated. The effect it gives out is that you are seeing what harry brown sees and the vision is that harry is seeing all these crimes happening so obviously, almost like it was in broad daylight and none of the authorities are doing anything about it, only when there’s a death involved in it.
An example of this is that at the start of the movie it shows a first person style shot looking through the eyes of a hoodie on a motorbike circling a mum with a pram shooting bullets at her, in broad daylight she is killed but no authorities come.
But further down the road it all comes back as they are hit by a truck.
The main character is named after the title of the movie, harry brown, a war veteran who swore he would never kill again.
The narrative storyline and events which unfolded in the scene were only presented using camera shots and actuality, no dialogue.
But when his father is found dead in an alleyway, killed by the thugs after months of torment, he goes on a quest for revenge, killing drug and gun dealers along the way with a hint of action embedded into the movie.
The movie I see fit as a multi stranded conventional movie with a hint of unconventional content and narrative.
The main narrative storyline follows harry brown, taking his revenge and another narrative line follows a detective trying to find out what has happened and who’s caused these murders. This plot has a hint of irony because harry brown and the audience know who’s killing all the gangsters and dealers but none of the police force and the investigator don’t know it until the end in which the investigator finds out but apart from that it has a very ironic narrative structure.
The movie follows a narrative basis that it starts off at an equilibrium, there’s a disruption then there’s an attempt to repair and near the end the hero, harry brown, is overthrown and just when you think he’s about to loose the tables are turned and the equilibrium is restored, or in this movie a new one is created.
The first few minutes of the film are described only by using camera shots, actuality and contain no dialogue or voiceover.
This is a film worth watching at the cinemas but if you are looking for more towards an action movie this wouldn’t be the movie for you.
Harry brown is a slow paced thriller with scenes of short gun fights.
It also contains scenes with the use of guns, drugs, violence and fowl language but worth watching at the cinema. For this film I give it a four out of five.