Bonnie and Clyde: When Criminals Had Morals

I think that this story shows how most crimes and violence is not done without some kind of regret. Today's images of guns, violence, rape, and abuse are often shown with people who feel nothing about killing someone, etc. It is strange because this is not human nature. Those that truly don't have a conscious are unusual and mentally or emotionally disturbed. Bonnie and Clyde was the first movie to show graphic violence and it is fitting that its story was about much more than their desire to be somebody that is remembered or that robs banks. They didn't want to kill anyone. They didn't want to rob the poor. Their love for each other is enough to show how human they are.

The other aspect that this film confronts is that of the law and its constituents who protect it. Before police, etc, popular justice would keep social balance by rising up against what they deemed wrong. THe law set standards and put a "neutral" judge to decide what was right and what was wrong. Because the upper income levels hold more sway, they inevitably effect the law and its judicial outcomes. Therefore, it is hard to say whether people like Bonnie and Clyde would have been seen as such criminals if it weren't for the fact that they broke the law of robbing banks, where the wealthy kept their money. Would the general society have banded together to rise against them? Probably not.

To great acting and great looking leads, Beatty and Farrow.