"Street Thief:" makes just about any crime film you've seen before seem fake,

Posted by tinear (A) on February 17, 2009 at 09:48:06

silly, and boring.
This is a documentary-style film (since the film purportedly is showing actual crime, the filmmakers for legal reasons decided not to portray the film as "true") which shows a burglar, Kaspar Carr, as he goes about researching, casing, preparing his tools, and taking down various Chicago-area businesses--- with one climactic "score" upwards of $100,000.
The film begins with a dark-dressed figure entering an alley, expertly scaling a wall, and clipping thick wires. Next, he walks around to the storefront (it is very late-night) and smashes out the front door glass, taking time to sweep away the pieces. He is wired for sound and we next hear him inside the store cutting into a safe. A bit later, he makes his getaway, almost nonchalantly exiting through the front door. As the crimes mount in complexity, daring, and profit, we get closer to the criminal, listening as he carefully explains every action and, along the way, telling us how first he came to realize crime does pay.
Fascinating.
Kaspar is a true professional, not only a master of cat-burglar breaking-and-entering but also at creating disguises, accents, and personalities which beggar Hollywood actors' attempts.
This film should have won many awards; that it hasn't, I'd venture, directly is related to the difficulties in assigning it a category, i.e. documentary or fiction.
What makes the "fiction" claim by the filmmaker ring hollow is the fact that his brother (the producer) was arrested around the film's release--- for armed robbery.
At any rate, whether clever fake or true account, this is an historic film.

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Topic - "Street Thief:" makes just about any crime film you've seen before seem fake, - tinear 09:48:06 02/17/09 (13)

"Real" good film - "fake" crimes. - Harmonia 12:34:30 02/18/09 (0)

RE: "Street Thief:" makes just about any crime film you've seen before seem fake, - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 10:13:28 02/18/09 (11)

The arrest has been reported in the press. - tinear 15:06:20 02/18/09 (10)

I think what he means is that... - jamesgarvin 17:27:08 02/18/09 (9)

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Of course not... - jamesgarvin 07:26:00 02/19/09 (3)

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Your 'younger days' - jamesgarvin 08:56:42 02/20/09 (0)

RE: In my rather wild younger years, I happened to be friends with several - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 23:56:40 02/19/09 (0)

RE: Burglars come into homes to.... - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 00:17:41 02/19/09 (2)

\but I would not hesitate to confront an intruder and cave his head in with anything I could get my hands on./ - three_sox 04:43:18 02/19/09 (1)

RE: \but I would not hesitate to confront an intruder and cave his head in with anything I could get my hands on./ - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 08:13:51 02/19/09 (0)

If someone breaks into a house... - mpathus 00:13:35 02/19/09 (0)

"Street Thief:" makes just about any crime film you've seen before seem fake,

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