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The hit men

posted 11 years ago by gerrywos
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Not the most efficient or intelligent.They keep asking Sandoval "are you Esposito", so they don't even know what their mark looks like,so if it actually was Esposito there and he said " no I'm just a neighbour minding his flat" they would have left?
They also allow Sandoval to move around touching stuff,couldn't he be moving towards a gun?

[–] gmansi 11 years ago

A movie based on the 70's.... personal pictures not really easy to find... also the hit men going to the target house...

[–] gerrywos 11 years ago

errm this was the 1970s,not the 1870s.

[–] gmansi 11 years ago

yes of course....

[–] forthesafetyofpuppies 11 years ago

so if it actually was Esposito there and he said " no I'm just a neighbour minding his flat" they would have left?

Nope, the assumption is they'd either kill him and then wait for Esposito or hold him prisoner, wait for Esposito, and kill them both. That's where the whole noble act of self-sacrifice comes in.

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[–] gmansi 11 years ago

"Nope, the assumption is they'd either kill him and then wait for Esposito or hold him prisoner, wait for Esposito, and kill them both. That's where the whole noble act of self-sacrifice comes in."

Nice point, I dont think on this way before. It have more sense now!

[–] nivenjohn 11 years ago

I think you are missing something crucial here. Right after this flashback, Espósito says something like "... or the pictures were knocked over accidentally, I don't know". This scene didn't represent an actual occurence, it was more about Espósito imagining how it could've happened. So it's also quite possible the hitmen didn't ask him anything and just killed him instantly.

[–] gmansi 11 years ago

So it's also quite possible the hitmen didn't ask him anything and just killed him instantly.

yes but on this case.. they donk know for real if they killed the right one no?

[–] nivenjohn 11 years ago

yes but on this case.. they donk know for real if they killed the right one no?

True. It's probably more likely that they would have asked him questions then. If this was the case, then OP is right; The hitmen weren't very intelligent if they were not even aware of their target's appearance.

[–] gmansi 11 years ago

OK, I understand.

[–] mgianelli 10 years ago

The hitmen were "AAA" (Alianza Anticomunista Argentina, active 1973-early 1976, until replaced by "grupos de tarea [task groups]" from the Armed Forces), bottom of the barrel stuff manned by right-wing Peronist union thugs. If you look at their automobile, it's a 1973-1977 Argentine Ford Falcon, infamous for being used for disappearing people...

Regarding "efficiency", if they had failed to find Espósito, they'd probably wouldn't have cared at all, they'd do another sortie to find him. One of the messages of the movie is that at that time, life was worthless...

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[–] badtothebono 11 years ago

They weren't BRAIN SURGEONS making a house call.

[–] Dog112 10 years ago

It's also possible that the hit men asked other questions, but Esposito didn't take the time to imagine what they might have said if they had in fact been more intelligent.

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