The main attention should be paid in this respect to the rainy, foggy scene when comes to the final part of Sullivan’s “road” (Kirsner 138). Here a viewer can acquire different treatment of the protagonist’s action: positive, for the murderer should be punished anyway negative, as this is amoral and too cruel to be done by solely one person, especially done by so gentle and inoffensive actor as Tom Hanks is. However merciful are the offenders, Michael Sullivan wipes up with everyone more or less related to his tragedy. The film adheres to the cruelty of the genre. This maneuver contrasted the framework of the expected effects by a spontaneous emergence of what was not expected at all. Sam Mendes did really emphasized the influence on the viewers by representing Tom Hanks in an “uncharacteristically dark role” (Fairbanks 301).

In contrast to other criminal movies, such as The Godfather and Public Enemies, this film is accomplished by scenes rich in violence. To say more, the peculiarity of genre coherence in what Mendes put through personal vision is in the seriousness of Tom Hanks’s role. “He’s an anti-hero to a degree, and as the story unfolds he does become a cold and calculating killer bent on revenge” (Wehner 117). As the film stars many of the great actors, a special uniqueness is in the fact that Tom Hanks is recognized here to play the first cruel role of a bad guy. (Tom Hanks) becomes a victim of misunderstanding (or better to say mistrust) on the part of Connor Rooney.Īs a result, the innocent death of Sullivan’s wife and son gives him no choice but to seek vengeance. The tense plot of the movie incorporates features of bloodshed shooting and many other defiant scenes so as to describe the way the violence is shown in terms of genre uniqueness.Īs a matter of fact, the film describes the typical story where the themes of revenge, death, cruelty, and ignorance of human values are all over. However, it is better to focus on the drama genre of the movie. In fact, the genre peculiarity of the movie runs across the symbiosis of several different trends in movies, such as crime, adventure, drama, and thriller. It was done by the director in order to deliver the drama of the main character. With the use of solely American themes of the Great Depression and overall social and economic pressure on Americans, the film is screened in genuinely dark and grey colors. The whole observation of the development of actions prescribed in the movie goes along with a good adaptation of the screenplay by David Self.

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