Bonnie and Clyde

This film is the film that changed cinema. It is an absolute classic. What I don't get is, by the time I'm writing this, classics like this get an average of 2 and a half stars, yet the unspeakable The Last Airbender gets 3 stars.

Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde is a film out of time....like it's main characters....as it heralded the start of a new style of American film making and film makers...De Palma, Scorsese, Coppolla...it ushered in the seventies...the best decade for American cinema ever...IMHO of course. As for the film itself...it's Robin Hood for psychos....a groundbreaking American view where the bad guys are good....and not whitewashed good either... With a fine cast of reprobates...Beatty, Dunaway and Hackman...shooting up small time America...an allegory for the times. My one complaint is that Clyde in real life was a homosexual...not impotent....I wish the film makers would have been brave enough to take on that taboo as well. Why would you want to watch this film? Because maybe you're the kind of person that would actually take the time to actually type "why"....