Bonnie and Clyde (non-analytical) 3/10

In a small town, a bored girl and an amateur bank robber join up in a tale of subtle lust, violence, and a stream of heists. Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) drive away from their small time lives and embark on a quest to make something better of themselves amidst the Great Depression. The romantic tale amongst Bonnie and Clyde take the two from being amateurs to being well known robbers in the state of Texas with the help of Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), his wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons) and a car mechanic named C.W. Moss (Michael J. Pollard).

As the tale weaves, conflict between Bonnie and Blanche develop. Bonnie represents an upcoming independent woman and Blanche represents the older more shrewd woman of the past. Of course there is also conflict between Bonnie and Clyde as well. Bonnie searches for children and Clyde's only reaction is that he just isn't a lover.

I can't really give this synopsis a real great wrap up because I feel that the movie did the same thing. There was no wrap up. They sort of left the audience and faded to black. It reminded me of the Sopranos and how they ended their movie (or Pirates of the Caribbean 2 if you've seen that movie). The movie also has four basic characters and each one of them is a grating character.

Clyde is a blunt sort of guy. He is the type that never got what Bonnie was trying to tell him. She wants more than just the life of crime and he doesn't know any other way and he is sort of like a kid in that he doesn't change. He doesn't see her point of view. He's just a little kid on the inside.

Then you have Bonnie, whose southern accent is pretty horrendous if you ask me. Sure it got better but there was this whole thing as well where she was an emotional train wreck. One moment she would be climbing on Clyde and the next she would be angry or teary. There was a scene where they are in bed and she asks Clyde what he would do differently if they had a clean slate (referring to her want for kids). He just looks at her and says "I'd go different places". He's blunt and she at first is teary (don't blame her) but then she cracks a smile and just forgives him instantaneously after he says that he loves her.

Then there's Buck and C.W. who are both pretty much just skimmed over within the story. They both have minimal background and they aren't even all that funny either. And then there's Blanche. She is possibly the most annoying character of all time. Her voice is just like nails on the wall and her acting is incredibly bad. She can't even exhibit fear well. When the guns go off she screams for thirty seconds straight. And even when the five of them are away from the cops she is still screaming. She has annoying lines for the whole movie and I think I had some serious anger problems near the end of the movie.

All in all I didn't care about the characters (which is what they want you to care about in the first place). I didn't like the movie because it was so slow and repetitive (amateur bank robbing can only get so invigorating) and at there was no character development. I just thought it was all forced and over hyped as well.

I give it a 3/10.