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On a week's reflection, you know what struck me most about the film? The pacing and the scale. It would have been really easy to turn it into a big-booming action romp, but they didn't do that. They kept the soliloquies and long, slow dialog scenes. The quiet moments the make punctuation out of the action... Hartigan going mad in his prison cell. Marv's surprisingly thoughtful narration. It's simultaneously a huge film with big events and a major story arc, and a movingly personal and intimate story, told on both scales at once. It's both about the city, and about the people in the city, and it never loses sight of either of them.
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