... and it doesn't hang around. Very shortly after the beginning of the film the guys start disrupting things, and it just escalates from there.
It's hard to imagine that this *wasn't* influenced by A Clockwork Orange but to some degree this is more plausibly "close to real society".
For computer buffs, there's also some great footage of the IBM 370 model 158 mainframe - Joe Dallesandro plausibly using a card reader to load up the detective's fake "lottery program", and wielding a light pen - 40 years before the launch of the Apple Pencil!
Not all of it works, and Joe really struggles to look normal at times, but once you buy into the idea that the Italian police really *are* that incompetent, it's well done.
Worth a look.
It's hard to imagine that this *wasn't* influenced by A Clockwork Orange but to some degree this is more plausibly "close to real society".
For computer buffs, there's also some great footage of the IBM 370 model 158 mainframe - Joe Dallesandro plausibly using a card reader to load up the detective's fake "lottery program", and wielding a light pen - 40 years before the launch of the Apple Pencil!
Not all of it works, and Joe really struggles to look normal at times, but once you buy into the idea that the Italian police really *are* that incompetent, it's well done.
Worth a look.