Review of The Violent Four

I don't include this movie in the 70s Italian crime films genre, since it is just a documentary narrating a true story. The people you see been shot (the man driving the truck, the kid exiting the subway station) were really killed the same way some months earlier in Milan's streets. The film narrates the robbery that took place in a Milan's bank in the fall of 1967, and was realized following the public shock that the whole story generated. That afternoon you could really see an high speed pursuit, with the criminals intentionally shooting innocent people on the street to convince police to stop the chase. I really liked this movie, for the ability of the director of depicting either the mere facts and the mentality of the bandits. Plus, Gian Maria Volonté is so good in portraying the rich criminal guy, who robs banks to "exit the mass". Some dialogs are in the Turin dialect, a northern dialect hard to understand for those like me who come from another region of Italy. Very interesting the way the main characters call the Police: "la Madama" (the Lady), again a northern expression.