Hi. On ‘crap surveillance’, I wondering whether I agree with you there. Thinking outside the box, might it be the case that they were employing methods that suited the tailing of home grown NYC criminals who we do grgg to to see in this film, whereas Charnier (Frog One), an outsider more used to the narrow alleys of France is more shrewd and switched on than the norm and knows he is unable to spend more than 5 minutes in New York without being in the company of a cop. He brings a clever shrewd element to shaking off the cops at The shuttle at Grand Central station where Popeye is let down by his colleagues carelessness and subsequently falls into a clumsy error and despite taking off the outer layer (coat) blows his cover. It’s an interesting question. In today’s world, yea I’d agree, but back then…. A clumsy cat would still catch a clumsy mouse.
Haha I should watch again… I think I’m my mind I was thinking of stuff like The Wire, but then that’s already in the age of burner phones and the beginning of networked surveillance so maybe TFC is just another example of just how much space and freedom we’ve lost since then… I watched The Seven-Ups shortly after this - which I’ll post here very soon - which I thought was a better movie all told… and also Sorcerer! Stay tuned…
Hi. On ‘crap surveillance’, I wondering whether I agree with you there. Thinking outside the box, might it be the case that they were employing methods that suited the tailing of home grown NYC criminals who we do grgg to to see in this film, whereas Charnier (Frog One), an outsider more used to the narrow alleys of France is more shrewd and switched on than the norm and knows he is unable to spend more than 5 minutes in New York without being in the company of a cop. He brings a clever shrewd element to shaking off the cops at The shuttle at Grand Central station where Popeye is let down by his colleagues carelessness and subsequently falls into a clumsy error and despite taking off the outer layer (coat) blows his cover. It’s an interesting question. In today’s world, yea I’d agree, but back then…. A clumsy cat would still catch a clumsy mouse.
Haha I should watch again… I think I’m my mind I was thinking of stuff like The Wire, but then that’s already in the age of burner phones and the beginning of networked surveillance so maybe TFC is just another example of just how much space and freedom we’ve lost since then… I watched The Seven-Ups shortly after this - which I’ll post here very soon - which I thought was a better movie all told… and also Sorcerer! Stay tuned…