heat movie review

Introduction to the movie Heat 

• It is strange that you will watch heat crime movie, but it is full of human relationships and their nature and their volatility, which will inevitably change your perspective on people of all sects and forms, as each of them has a special perspective on his life that he sees as the most appropriate, and each has his own direction in life that is difficult to change, and it will make you respect others even if their direction is not correct.

• There is also something very important, which is that the direct approach in dealing with people is the shortest way to reap good results and create special relationships, and this is what makes life easier and free of the complications that destroy it.

• EMastering what you do is the core of the movie. It is natural that each of us has a job or a job that he puts all his effort into, but the most important thing to master this work is to have a special talent that makes you put your mark and ideas in managing what you do, even if the type of work is simple. Talent needs to be polished and motivated until it bears fruit, and your work appears in its best form. Without talent, you will not get the complete picture of your work, as something will always be missing from it.

Movie Characters

Are there similarities between Hanna and McCauley?

There are certainly several points they share, as each of them leaves their personal lives in decline for the sake of work, and also each of them loves their work and is very good at it, their relationships with women face great difficulty in progress due to the nature of their harsh work, despite their great interest in relationships with others.

The character of Hanna, played by Al Pacino, is an officer who devotes his life to protecting others, and is dedicated to his work because he has a sharp intelligence and a special talent that makes him see the truth and what lies behind things, and gives his work a special priority, even if it is at the expense of his personal life. As for the character of McCauley, played by Robert De Niro, who works in theft and armed robbery, he has the same intelligence and talent, but he exploits it to earn his living in illegal ways, and he does not know anything other than this work, despite its danger and illegality, which affects the formation of a special personal relationship.

Confidence and boldness are two traits that both characters possess, and they are two traits that should be present in a police officer, but strangely enough for a thief to possess them unless he is an extraordinary thief, and this is what McCauley's character presented to us here, as when they met face to face with Hanna, and the latter invited him to a cup of coffee, he simply accepted the invitation, and it is a pleasure to see that reaction.

McCauley is distinguished by his insight and good farsightedness, he advised one of his team members to give up his role in the operation they are about to carry out, because he saved good money from previous operations, and because the operation they will carry out carries a lot of great risks, but he did not listen to him and decided to participate in it, and met his death in it.

Also, when his main assistant Chris quarreled with his wife Charlene, and left her home and went to McCauley, then McCauley asked him if Charlene was cheating on him with another, he denied it and it later becomes clear at one point in the movie that she is actually doing that despite her intense love for him.

As for Hanna, he is good at dealing with different types of people, especially criminals and their snitches, and he knows how to talk to them in a very pressured manner, in order to get the information he wants from them, which is a talent that not many people have.

Relationships

We see a lot of suffering in Hanna's relationship with his wife Justine, despite their love for each other, and also Chris's suffering with Charlene, due to the harsh nature of their work that causes tremendous pressure on their wives, and the large amount of time they spend in that work, and there are also financial pressures added to that, but only with Chris and Charlene.

As for McCauley, he does not want to be attached to anyone, especially a woman, due to the nature of his work that might make him abandon anyone if things get heated, or he is exposed to any danger that forces him to disappear or go far away, but despite that, he met a girl named eady , and became emotionally attached to her to the point that he could not abandon her under any circumstances, then he tried to finish his last operation so that they could travel together to a faraway place, and live a stable life.

Another simple role in the movie Heat, but it is very expressive of our reality, when Breedan, a former criminal, tried to get away from the world of crime, and live a normal life and work a normal job, and his girlfriend encouraged and supported him in that, but his boss at that job literally enslaved him and even humiliated him, exploiting his previous crime, and this put a lot of pressure on him as a man with dignity, and so when McCauley offered him to work with them, he agreed after thinking quickly as if he had been freed from slavery.

Unforgettable scenes

The scene that brought together Hanna and McCauley in the cafe is the heart of the movie, and is considered one of the most important and best scenes in the history of cinema, because it is a very creative scene that contains a lot. Imagine with me what would prompt a thief to accept the invitation of the officer who is chasing him for a cup of coffee, and even sit with him with strange confidence and great challenge, and discuss with him life matters that are private to both of them and also about their unique conflict, and by all standards we see them as opponents in the clothes and intimacy of friends, and this is what made this scene a true sign of brilliance, making each of them leave a distinctive impression on the other, and a mutual appreciation of their personalities in all their aspects, they were two sides of the same coin through the transparency and depth that prevailed in their dialogue, and they enjoyed talking to each other, and the challenge that the dialogue ended with indicates their awareness of a bitter reality that unfortunately makes them not on the same side.

There is also the scene where Charlene was waiting for Chris on the balcony, but with the officers ambushing him, and she was forced to participate in that, in order to protect her child and herself, it was a very complicated situation, she did not know what to do when her lover Chris came, should she simply sacrifice him and surrender to the bitter reality, or warn him and lose a good future for her and her child, but her heart refused to answer the call of reason, making her act wonderfully and intelligently when he came, she passed her hand to the side meaning continue on your way, and he understood the matter immediately, and acted intelligently so as not to arouse suspicion, and succeeded in passing through this ambush, her eyes were shining with tears, and she smiled a light smile because she was reassured of his safety, and she quickly hid it when she returned inside the house, and her feelings were controlled by the strength of the great love between them.

There is also a very important and expressive scene, when Hanna returned home, after having a feeling that McCauley had fled forever, to find his stepdaughter Lauren in his bathtub, drowning in her blood. The young woman had committed suicide, due to her poor psychological state caused by her real father, by marginalizing her and not caring about her. It was a shock to Hanna by all standards, but he quickly pulled himself together, and rushed to carry her and bandage her bleeding areas, then carried her to the hospital in the real panic of a father who fears for his daughter's life. There is no blood relationship, but there is a huge human bond that has formed between them. His feelings as a human being move him towards those he cares about and must care for. What he did contributed greatly to establishing other good foundations between him and her mother, Justine, after their relationship had deteriorated greatly due to Hanna's constant work pressures, after Justine realized that she would not You find a person who deserves the meaning of this word as much as Hanna.

The last and sad scene in the movie, carries real pain for everyone who saw it and who will see it, as Hanna was holding McCauley's hand while he was dying, he was mourning him with extraordinary pain and sorrow, and his eyes and heart were filled with suppressed tears, for certainly losing an honorable and respectable opponent is worse than losing a trivial or morally degenerate friend, Hanna had overcome McCauley and killed him, and this was his duty as an honorable policeman, but deep down he never wished this to happen, for there was a hidden and special relationship between them, and it was closer to an undeclared friendship, and Hanna respected and saw that McCauley was not a thief in the understood sense, he was a man who had practiced a profession that he had found no other before him, and he did not excel in anything like it, and despite that he was a wonderful person outside this scope, and the conversation that took place between them in the cafe brought them closer, Hanna realizes that McCauley is someone similar to him, but in a completely inappropriate dress.

Overall movie look

• Different categories of people have their own tendencies and motivations in choosing the path that suits them in life, even if some of them know that it is an inappropriate or illegal path, but they do not know or have not seen another path, and therefore they continue to move forward in it, even if the end is almost dark, and this is what McCauley knew well and tried to reach a good end, then abandon this path forever, but fate brought him together with Hanna, who knew his purpose in life well, and he saw a special person inside the depths of McCauley, but he was not on the right path, so in the final scene he was sorry from the bottom of his heart for what happened, but it was the inevitability of things that forced him to do so, or in other words, the fate from which there is no escape.

• The relationships we saw in the movie are special relationships, not connected by blood, but connected by deep feelings and bonds that grew with interaction, love and mutual humanity, despite the differences in the goals and methods of some in their lives. These relationships remained strong throughout the movie, even with the tension of the events and their climax, and the separation of common interests even between spouses as an example, to confirm in the end that a person in his entirety does not deserve this word, except through his interest and special interaction with others around him.

• The case we have seen here, represented by Hanna and McCauley, is a rare and unusual case, in which they were able to document the respect of one person for the other, despite the contradiction of their paths in life, because when they had a deep conversation, each of them knew through it the nature of the other, and they came very close to each other intellectually, to the point of forming an undeclared friendship even for them.

• Police work is a sacred and dangerous duty, and even if it affects his personal life, it makes him happy when he completes it, and his success in protecting others from the evils of the world, and their families must accept the matter bravely, as it is inevitable.

• Not every criminal should be called by this word, there are people who consider it a profession that they do not excel in anything else, and no one has offered them another job, and this is in my opinion a shortcoming of societies, so we must all provide a helping hand to criminals who consider it a profession, so that we can rid them of that situation forever, as for criminals who are sick with crime, we must try to treat them, and if society cannot do that, then isolation and exclusion is the only solution available at that time.

• Finally, the movie Heat remains one of the landmarks of cinema throughout history, and everyone should watch it not only to enjoy every moment of it, but to see the relationships between individuals in it and how they proceed, and to consider this an opportunity to see the real human models that deserve to be given this word.