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Heroes and Villains
A pitch-perfect tale of Prohibition
LAWLESS:
Directed by John Hillcoat.
Screenplay by Nick Cave; based on the book The
Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant.
Cinematography, Benoit Delhomme. Editor, Dylan
Tichenor. Music, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke,
Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce, Mia Wasikowska and
Gary Oldman. The Weinstein Company, 2012. R. 115
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n 2006, director John Hillcoat blew
my mind. I went into The Proposition
knowing only that it was set in Australia
and starred a lot of actors I admire; I came out
half shellshocked and entirely awed. Bloody,
ugly, intense, beautifully and intelligently
made, The Proposition was a movie that
wrestled with morality; put tough, deeply
fl awed characters front and center; and
didn’t shy away from truly awful violence.
It’s one thing to cheer Batman knocking out
bad guys; it’s another to watch fl ies circle a
puddle of blood, or hear the harsh crack of
bone breaking.
Lawless, which follows Hillcoat’s 2009
adaptation of The Road, is cut from similar
cloth. Once again, screenwriter Nick Cave’s
story follows three outlaw brothers (though
here he’s adapting Matt Bondurant’s novel);
once again, violence has a central place in
their lives, and morality is a shifty thing that
has little to do with governance and laws. In
Prohibition-era Franklin County, Virginia,
the Bondurant brothers — Howard (Jason
Clarke), Forrest (Tom Hardy) and Jack (Shia
LaBeouf) — are successful bootleggers.
They’re in cahoots with local authorities, and
everyone knows not to mess with them; local
legend even has it that Forrest is immortal.
That’s unlikely, but what isn’t questionable
is his ferocity with a set of brass knuckles.
Bondurants don’t take shit from anybody,
and Forrest — who can speak paragraphs
with a monosyllabic grunt — is their
undisputed leader, the taut, stocky presence
in all their deals. When a city lawyer and
his slimy special deputy, Charlie Rakes (a
creepy Guy Pearce), come in and expect the
Bondurants to capitulate to their demands for
a share of the profi t, everything goes to hell
— but slowly, in fi ts and starts.
Apart from the occasional spurt of
Forrest’s terrifyingly effective viciousness,
Lawless begins with an unexpected
looseness. The law is a bother, but the days
are bright, the whiskey sells like hotcakes,
and the scenery — as shot by Proposition
cinematographer Benoit Delhomme — is
glorious. A pretty city lass, Maggie (Jessica
Chastain), comes to work at the Bondurants’
place, and a sweet preacher’s daughter
(Mia Wasikowska) catches Jack’s eye. The
Bondurants look out for each other: Coiled-
snake Forrest has a leash on hotheaded
Howard and thinks he’s got Jack under his
wing as well. But Jack’s tired of being the
housedog, the driver, and his ambitions
further complicate the Bondurants’ existence.
And so the narrative threads start to
tighten. Lawless’ complex story sits, as
Hillcoat has noted in interviews, in the place
between Westerns and gangster movies. Our
heroes are outlaws, but they do ugly things;
their enemies are cops, except when they
aren’t. These characters don’t fi t neatly into
types, and their story doesn’t play out along
expected lines (though truly bad guys do tend
to meet satisfying fates). Cave’s screenplay
shines a bitter light on Prohibition’s
disastrous tangle of restriction, capitalism
and corruption, but it also gently teases out
a more intimate story: that of a man trying to
reshape his own nature.
Forrest is the gravitational force in the
Bondurant family, but Jack is the storyteller,
the one with the vision, the one who’s stayed
outside when the violence goes down. His
struggle to play the bootlegger game, to put
aside his kinder self and get dirty because
that’s what he thinks the world needs of him,
gives Lawless a quiet strength — the same
kind that Maggie displays when everything
comes crashing down on the Bondurants.
Lawless might sound like a familiar story
— the rebellious boys on the wrong side of
a corrupt law — but in Cave and Hillcoat’s
hands, it’s anything but. Complex, horrifying,
pitch-perfect and exceedingly well acted, it’s
the near-brilliant fi lm you never expected
at the end of summer.
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