Film · Warner Bros. · 1975
Pass it on
Dog Day Afternoon
45Watch it awake.
He's neither a hero nor a joke, and the cheering sidewalk should bother you.
The review
The crowd is the part I can't shake. A man tries to rob a Brooklyn bank to pay for his partner's sex-change surgery. By the end of the afternoon the plan has fallen apart: hostages, police, television, and a sidewalk that cheers him. Based on a real afternoon. He is not a hero and he is not a cartoon, and the film holds both lines.
Watch it with another adult, not with a kid hunting for a rebel. The partner is a reason, not a pardon. The hostages are people. A felony becomes a show in one afternoon, and the sidewalk likes the show. I left thinking about that cheering, not about a man to imitate.
Journal
Keep Dog Day Afternoon in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Anatomy of a Murder
58 instead of 45
Anatomy of a Murder is still a crime film, and it scores 58 instead of 45. What you gain is republic: A jury is the public.
The eight
- 5Industry
A bank and the police are real workplaces. His robbery is a job that fails.
- 4Household
He does it for a partner, not for a marriage or a child at home.
- 3Piety
Care for his partner does not stop the crime. It is why he starts.
- 5Courage
He risks the rest of his life on a plan that collapses by dark.
- 4Republic
Police hold the street while a crowd turns a felony into theater.
- 4Temperance
The film will not hero him, but the crowd's hunger is the day's fuel.
- 7Truth
Based on a real afternoon, and it will not sand him into either myth.
- 4Stewardship
You leave with hostages, a failed plan, and a city that liked the show.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Dog Day Afternoon · 45IMDb
