Kiss me. When I'm being f*cked, I like to get kissed a lot.

Rating: 9/10 (10 May 2009)

Does the media make the news or do they report the news. The media presence has an effect on what is happening. When the media observes an action, it changes. Soon the characters are playing to the media.
This is all occurring as Al Pacino is trying to get money for his lover to get an operation. This go wrong from the start and, before they can escape, the police arrive with Charles Durning in the lead.
Pacino and During turn it all into a circus that makes it impossible to get anywhere. One girl even has a chance to escape and she goes back in so as not to miss being the center of media attention.
Sonny's (Pacino) partner Sal is played by John Cazale, who only made a handful of films, all of them pretty memorable. Most would remember him as Fredo in The Godfather. He died shortly after his last film, The Deer Hunter.
We also see the Stockholm Syndrome at work as the girls start getting comfortable with Sonny.
His conversations with his wife (Susan Peretz), his lover (Chris Sarandon), and his mom (Judith Malina) all added to the excitement.
One of the best movies of the 70s, a tour de force for Pacino, and definitely a movie that stands the test of time.