Slick, Speedy And Ultra-Violent '68 Kill' Leaves A Bitter Aftertaste
Many noir thrillers play with misogynistic ideas, but "68 Kill keeps the hostility and loses the self-deprecation, which turns it into an example of misogyny rather than an examination of it."
When Martin Scorsese directed the nervy black comedy in 1985, it was both a catharsis and a reckoning, a means to reenergize himself after flopped and address the hang-ups with women that united many of his characters. Instead of the jealous brutes in , , and , that film follows an ineffectual office drone, played by Griffin Dunne, as a hoped-for sexual liaison turns into a luckless, surreal
