Breathless. 1983. Dir. Jim McBride

Breathless
Year: 1983
Director: Jim McBride
Breathless is one of
those movies where you also want to be the bad guy that has fun breaking the
law and gets the most beautiful girl. I think breathless is one of those movies
that depict crime as a glamorous thing. The main character starts the movie the
same way he ended it. With no fear for anything and somehow no respect either. As
this guy that just kill a cop intentionally or not (we do not see the moment
when he shots) goes in search of a girl that he meet in Las Vegas, we wonder
what kind of person would steal a car shot a cop and break in to a woman house.
This is a love story where a beautiful architecture student girl that has
everything including the support of her parents, support of her professors,
money and a bright future. She still falls in love with a guy that seems to
have an adventurous life. When she found out all he has done she goes on the
run with him. For her being on the run is the most exciting thing she can think
of. When she goes to the store to get some food she realized her face and his
face are in the newspaper. At the end she comes in reason the calls the police.
He never gives up and even when he is totally surrounded be cops with guns he
decides to tell her that he loves her by singing and dancing a song while the
cops look confused. He reaches down to pick up a gun and turns around facing
the cops. The movie end and we do not hear the sound of gun shots, but we do
not need to. We know what happens when you shot at a cop. The movie is an
example of a person that lives to the extreme. Unfortunately he seems to hurt
indirectly the lives of other that way. I believe the central point of the
movie is to show how wild and crazy society can tolerate and a close company
can be brain-washed into doing it to. The end is tragic. He dies for nothing
when he was only 28. She ruined her own life by making that mistake of going
with him. Now she is alone and has no support from anybody.