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The Professional
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by Sony Pictures
Sales Rank: 8337
Price: $10.99
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An orphaned girl takes shelter with a neighbor she knows slightly. Leon is a professional hit man whos never had a reason to care about anybody but natalie has no one else. They form a makeshift father-daughter bond that changes both of their lives. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/07/2004 Starring: Jean Reno Gary Oldman Run time: 109 minutes Rating: R Director: Luc Besson
Viewer Reviews
Jean Reno as "The Professional" brings to film a killer version of a man who is hesitant about life and rigid about relationships. That the movie comes under the guise of a hitman, or cleaner as Leon calls himself, is merely the dressing for the real story--the relationship between Leon and Matilda.
Matilda is the 12-year-old daughter of a scumbag, small-time drug dealer, who has little control of himself, eases his frustrations through his hot wife and against his young daughter, Matilda. She is supposed to be in boarding school and out of the way when a DEA officer comes for his cocaine or retribution. Gary Oldman is the agent with his staff of crooked cops and dope dealers. Matilda escapes murder when her neighbor, Leon, takes her in.
Natalie Portman as Matilda is pubescent and childishly provocative in an unintentional way. Their relationship deepens as he trains Matilda in the craft of "cleaning." Trust buds. His heart, so closed, much like Silas Marner, gradually opens to Matilda's openness, much like Eppie's. The difference is, of course, the time period. Silas and Eppie had a father-daughter relationship because it was merry ole England in the Victorian Period. Leon and Matilda live in the Italian area of New York--he is a killer, she is the daughter of a drug dealer. Boundaries are much less strict.
Even though Leon always remains fatherly toward Matilda, given time, that stance may have changed, and probably would to the satisfaction of them both. But that Lolita position never arrived because the Oldman character intervened.
The story with all its corruption of character, hardness of heart, violence to the max, ends in a pastoral-like scene. Matilda is rooted.
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