Killing Them Softly: Brad Pitt as an Assassin with Aplomb

Mystery is star quality for Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), the Mob hit man in Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly. Cogan is both inside the syndicate and above it. “Very few guys know me,” he says; angels of death do not socialize. He dispatches his victims with efficiency, because that’s his job and his style. Sometimes, though, he doesn’t much care for the particulars. In their final moments before the fatal gunshot, he says, guys tend to “get touchy-feely. Emotional, not fun, lot of...

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