The first stealing scene, if not for the close up we wouldn’t even know who is stealing, the railway station scene where it’s such a tense moment. It looks like gimmicks, something to show off but for some reason all the scene in ‘Pickpocket’ are very common. Much like what Selvaraghavan or Mysskin do here. One of the theories is how Bresson wants to strip actors of emotion. The story is as simple as it could get but the making makes it a masterpiece (according to reports). It might have been the inspiration for Mysskin, who shot a good pickpocket scene and commercialized it better. The scene reminded me of the scene in ‘Thupparivaalan’. He then follows a group of pick pocketers, the tricks were fabulous and the scenes were rapidly cut too so it was stylish but wasn’t stylized just for the sake of it. It’s a typical heroic scene made in an unheroic way. He succeeds but immediately gets caught by the police but they had to release him due to lack of evidence. He initially tries to go to a horse racing scene and steal from there. Pickpocket follows the story of Michel (Martin LaSalle) who through his diary tells about his life of pickpocketing, what happened to him because of that. So, you can try and focus, keep the attention span intact, at least thinking that it’s going to get over soon. At least in that aspect ‘Pickpocket’ was a savior. On top of it ‘Citizen Kane’ was lengthy too. How the commentary of ‘Citizen Kane’ changed my perspective is a clear indicator of it. It’s not something which woos you outright. ‘Pickpocket’ is a kind of film which you’ve to watch the commentary, read about it and understand the legacy.
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