I was watching the movie "The Killer" because . . . because . . . I don't know. I like Michael Fassbender as an actor. I like movies in which individuals have the power to act in improbable to impossible situations. I don't know.
But at the start of the movie, the main protagonist (Fassbender) was of a philosophical mind and stated this: "From the beginning of history, the few have always exploited the many. This is the cornerstone of civilization, the blood in the mortar that binds all of the bricks."
His point is that one should be of the few and not of the many, but of course, by the end of the ordeal, aka movie, he identifies as one of the many. Possible he was signifying his retirement from "the few."
Wisdom out of the mind of a professional assassin.
What was also notable about this movie was that Fassbender's character had literally dozens of identities available to him, already prepared (he was a stickler for preparation). Each of them has a passport, credit cards, driver's licenses, etc. What was noteworthy were the names of the aliases. Here is a list:
Felix Unger
Archibald Bunker
Oscar Madison
Howard Cunningham
Reuben Kincaid
Sam Malone
George Jefferson, and
Robert Hartley.
Of course, the youngsters interacting with him didn't recognize any of them as names of characters in sitcoms ("Enjoy your flight, Mr. Bunker," etc.). The only one I didn't recognize was Reuben Kincaid, who was the manager of the Partridge Family. I guess my memory isn't so very bad as I could place each of those other characters into the shows they were in: Robert Hartley in the Bob Newhart Show, Felix Unger in the Odd Couple, etc.
I wonder how many in this movie's target audience (youngish males, I assume) recognized these.
I don't recommend this movie to you unless you are an aficionado of action-adventure movies and don't blanche at the portrayal of brutal killings.
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