The Drop - Cash

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Movie
German title The Drop - Cash
Original title The drop
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 16
Rod
Director Michaël R. Roskam
script Dennis Lehane
production Peter Chernin ,
Dylan Clark ,
Mike Larocca
music Marco Beltrami
camera Nicolas Karakatsanis
cut Christopher Tellefsen
occupation

The Drop - Cash is an American crime drama - drama of the Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam from the year 2014. The screenplay was written by author Dennis Lehane , who to his own short story Animal Rescue processed. Lehane has already written the novel for the films Mystic River  (2003), Gone Baby Gone  (2007) and Shutter Island  (2010).

The main roles are played by Tom Hardy , Noomi Rapace , James Gandolfini , Matthias Schoenaerts and John Ortiz . Actor James Gandolfini, who died in June 2013, can be seen here in his final role.

The film premiered on September 12, 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival . The film is distributed by 20th Century Fox and was released in Germany on December 4, 2014.

action

Good-natured Bob Saginowski works behind the counter in a Brooklyn bar . His older cousin Marv used to be the sole owner of the simple workers' pub, but had to cede it to the local Chechen mafia due to debts and now only works as a front man for the gangsters. They use a number of such inconspicuous places as collection points ("drops") for the income from their criminal activities. The money is pushed over the counter in inconspicuous envelopes while the bar is open, thrown into a safe through a slot and removed with the empties or rubbish the next day. The operator only finds out shortly beforehand that his pub is classified as a “drop” on a particular evening.

One day, Bob finds an abused pit bull puppy in a garbage can and meets Nadia, who lives in the neighborhood. Bob calls the dog Rocco, and Nadia helps him raise him.

One evening two armed, masked men storm the restaurant and steal the entire day's income. During the robbery, Bob notices that one of the robbers is wearing a broken watch. Since an employee was injured in the robbery and is being admitted to the hospital, the police are also interested in the incident. However, when dealing with Detective Torres, Bob and Marv keep a low profile as they both know about the criminal activities going on in their bar. However, Bob inadvertently mentions in his testimony that one of the robbers was wearing a broken watch. It doesn't take long before the gangsters threatened to use violence to demand that the cash deficit be compensated.

While taking care of Rocco, Bob and Nadia get closer. Meanwhile, Marv meets with one of the robbers, from which it becomes clear that the attack was organized by him. In the meantime, Bob meets a certain Eric Deeds, who soon shows up at his house and claims that Rocco belongs to him and Bob asks questions about Nadia. When Bob speaks to Nadia about Deeds, she tells him that they were together once.

Since Bob and Marv cannot repay the Chechen money, both are visibly tense, and Bob tells Marv about his encounter with Eric Deeds. Meanwhile, they find a garbage bag in the backyard, which contains the robber's severed forearm with the defective wristwatch in addition to the stolen money. Meanwhile, Bob learns from Marv that Deeds claims he was responsible for the unsolved murder of Richie Whelan, a regular at the bar.

After they have returned the money to the Chechens, Marv plans another robbery on the bar. To this end, he meets with the remaining accomplice of the first robbery and explains to him that they will rob the bar on the night of the Super Bowl . However, he refuses to participate in another attack. Marv is sitting in a car, opens the trunk and asks the robber to close it again. While he is doing this, Marv runs over him in cold blood. Marv then meets with Deeds and persuades him to rob the bar on Super Bowl night.

Bob then meets Deeds again. Deeds threatens to inform the police that he is keeping a dog illegally and to kill the puppy if he gets it back unless Bob pays him $ 10,000. Bob decides to pay the money and puts it under the counter with a gun. On the day of the Super Bowl, Deeds breaks into Nadia's house and forces her to accompany him to the bar. Meanwhile, Marv tells Bob that he is not doing well and that he will therefore not be working on the Super Bowl.

On the evening of the Super Bowl, the couriers regularly bring money to the lively bar. Deeds and Nadia are also present. When they are alone with Bob shortly before the bar closes and Deeds goes outside to smoke, Nadia warns Bob that Deeds is carrying a gun. When Deeds comes back, he demands not only the 10,000 dollars for the dog but also the contents of the safe. As the situation builds up, Bob tells him the story of how Richie Whelan actually died. Richie Whelan owed Marv, who was a loan shark at the time . Whelan was able to repay his debts because he hit the jackpot at the casino. But since Whelan made far more money than he owed, Marv decided to take all of the money because he was addicted to gambling and in debt. To cover up how Marv got so much money, Whelan died and was shot by Bob. Deeds tries to contradict, claiming again that he shot Whelan.

Bob then pulls the gun, shoots Deeds and tells Nadia that she is free now and can go. She promises not to tell anyone and goes home. That same night, the Chechens dispose of Deeds' body and collect the daily income. From Chevko, the Mafia boss, Bob learns that he knew about Marv's involvement in the attack and therefore had to get him aside. Chevko then appoints Bob as the new bar operator.

The next day, Detective Torres Bob offers condolences on Marv's death. At the same time he asks Bob if he knew anything about Deeds' disappearance, and explains to him that Deeds could not possibly be involved in the murder of Richie Whelan because Deeds was in a psychiatric ward at the time of the crime. Bob replies that some people disappear and some come back at some point.

In the end, Bob visits Nadia with Rocco and asks her to tell him to get out of her life. Instead, Nadia goes into the house and fetches her jacket.

reception

The Drop - Cash scores 69/100 on Metacritic , based on 36 reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , 89% of the reviews are positive. The average rating is 7.1 / 10 based on 177 reviews. In conclusion, it says: "There are some thematically similar crime dramas, but The Drop stands out due to its cleverly written script and its strong cast."

The film received the rating "valuable" from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) . The jury statement stated that the film was a “successful gangster film”, but did not “reach the level of the best examples of the genre in all respects”.

The film-dienst said that the film "with all the realism of the milieus rather metaphorical portraits of people, whereby the melancholy, haunting style successfully undermines conventional genre expectations".

For Barbara Schweizerhof from epd Film , the atmosphere was the great strength of the film: “Settled in winter”, “ The Drop ” captures the cold on the street, the humid, cozy warmth of the bar as well as the shabby district of the »Brooklyn is cool «wave has apparently not yet been recorded». She also praised Gandolfini and Hardy, who played their opposite male types with "captivating intensity".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Drop - Cash . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 247 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for The Drop - Cash . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Toronto Film Festival lineup . Variety . Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  4. ^ Company credits . Internet Movie Database . Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ The Drop . In: Metacritic . Accessed May 1, 2015. (English)
  6. ↑ The Drop . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved May 1, 2015: "There's no shortage of similarly themed crime dramas, but The Drop rises above the pack with a smartly written script and strong cast."
  7. ↑ The Drop - Cash. German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) , accessed on December 8, 2014 (jury statement).
  8. ↑ The Drop - Cash. film service , accessed December 8, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Review of The Drop - Cash. epd film , accessed April 27, 2015 .