I'm on your side on this one

Rating: 9/10 (24 May 2019)

Dog Day Afternoon is a fantastic 'bank robbery gone wrong' movie, but becomes much more than that.I expected it to be a crime drama but I was surprised how comedic it is.
In my opinion this movie tries to tell us that people don't care about anything except MONEY and FUN!! Today society doesn't know death. Hostages who were scared at first, got so comfortable around the robbers and after the saw Sal's death they understood in what dangerous situation they were. And people outside of the bank who started to applaud Sonny after he threw them some money.
Another point that we can get from this film is the difference between younger and older society. For example when young bank clerks laugh at the "F word" but the older bank clerk gets angry.
When we see that the police keep asking that "Are the alive?" we can understand that they just want them alive and they don't care about the hostages condition. The only thing that is important to the government is its prestige.
And a fabulous performance by Al Pacino makes the movie even better.