Blow Out (EOTWS)

End Of The Week #6.1 extract: Blow Out (1981)

Before anything... the end... wow. Immensely powerful. If you need a reason to watch this movie, there it is. 

If you still need persuasion, look no further than De Palma's masterful direction. A New Hollywood giant that is somewhat overshadowed by the likes of Scorsese and Coppola, De Palma directs the fuck out of this movie - and there's no other ways you can say that. The camera work and mise en scène are tremendously conceived and managed, bringing out the absolute best in this already stellar script with beautiful cinematic language. The only elements of this film that you may critique are, somewhat ironically, bits of the sound design; the sound track is a little jarring. Added to this, whilst Travolta is superb, Nancy Allen... ehhh... not so much. 

Nonetheless, Blow Out is phenomenal film seemingly constructed by cinematic masterminds.