Goldbeater

Bursting with energy. Just as the legendary theme tune by Wang Chung slowly goes down with the sun rising over L.A. during the opening credits, the movie bombards the audience’s senses with aggressive beats. Friedkin's entire movie constantly delivers surprising twists to the slow-paced neo-noir story, and bursts of beautiful violence leading to the inevitably nihilistic conclusion. Therefore I enjoyed all of it. To Live and Die in L.A. is a typically eighties movie, and at the same time a memorable thriller with a style like no other. This is my favorite Friedkin movie, and is a movie that I would like to watch one day on a big screen with the best possible sound system.