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Cowboy, detective, gangster, thriller, western —all refer to film categories, though gangster (or, rather, gangsterism ) can be many kinds of coercive behavior, even schoolyard bullying.
The beauty of The Limey is that it takes a pretty standard pulp formula--wronged gangster turned vigilante avenger--and creates what amounts to an essay on the idea of "distance": from other people, from the effects of our own actions in the past, and from ourselves.
Says David Chou, a promoter of U.S. statehood for Taiwan, "China is like a gangster; the United States is like a policeman.
Suddenly forced to keep company with men named Vito and Vinnie, to bury a corpse beside the East River, and to make like a gangster with a voice that's a cross between John Wayne and Tweety Bird, the squeamish Englishman winces, bites his lip, bats his eyelashes, shrugs sheepishly, and looks--yes--adorably abashed.
Raves for this biopic of infamous Irish thief Martin Cahill ("The General"): It "belongs on a long list of history's best gangster movies" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). John Boorman won Best Director at Cannes for the film.