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Black Doves Recap: If They’re After You, You’re Already Dead
Black Doves ramps up the action and violence with chaotic glee.
There are three assassins, as there were three wise men; the refrain of pa-rum-pum-pum is a not-too-distant cousin of gunfire’s own onomatopoeic rat-a-tat; their finest gifts are guns, knives, and a wee bomb, and they intend to lay them, after a fashion, before Hector, who was nearly a baby the last time Sam was hunting him, and who fancies himself the young king of South London. If earlier foggy, dim scenes suffused with red and green light have suggested some of the romanticism of In the Mood for Love, the blue-and-pink neon-soaked sequence at Hector Newman’s doomed nightclub is shouting Miami Vice and Birds of Prey. Obviously, Williams needs to keep Sam alive to pay her (before she later kills him), but there’s a note of real camaraderie in her voice when she tells him that “there’s nothing sadder than an old hit man, but I’m not letting you die tonight, you fucker!” The showmanship of this sequence is a high-water mark for stylish violence in the series so far.
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