The Sting

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The Sting is a classic story that explores revenge for the death of a good friend. Instead of them having revenge by retaliating in nature, Hill uses the main characters to get their revenge by coning the man who is responsible for the death, out of his money. Getting through the first parts of the film, one gets to be grabbed fully into the film (Michaels, 1993). Hill also breaks the conformity of the other films through setting the main characters as conmen. This is quite different from the other films given that the men needed to be seen as good but at the end, the opposite happened (Shaw, 2012). The movie, The Sting, vividly brings out morality in Revenge. In the movie, Johnny Hooker and Luther Coleman are “grifters” or come out as confidence …show more content…

Often, I do not admire what is known as “heist” or “caper” movies, given that they tend to give a feeling of glamourizing crime and some sense of dishonesty at the same time. The movie, The Sting, to some extent, turns out to be different. In the movie, Hooker and Gondorff exist in a world where the moral order has indeed decayed. The police, in this setup, are fully corrupt, and one such is Snyder, who is representative of the forces of law and order and, in fact, is part of the payroll of Lonnegan (Weverka, 1974). It is evident that no chance exists for Hooker to get justice for the murder of the friend through the normal channels; with the only way that they can do this being through seeking other options that exist outside the law. In any society, where the police are crooked, only criminals can execute justice. At the end of the film, there is the emotional satisfaction that is felt. The emotional feeling mainly occurs because of some moral order that appears to be restored at the end, and this happens without a person getting injured except for the wallet of

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