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Black Mass - Film Review - Vijay Ramalingam

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Black Mass – Movie review An aptly titled film that gives a hint early on about the nature of the main plot and the protagonist, Black Mass is a sober and gripping crime drama based on real life Irish-American mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger and his ’unholy alliance’– as called by the makers themselves, between Bulger and FBI. The film is directed by Scott Cooper and is based on the 2001 book ‘ Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance between the FBI and the Irish Mob’ by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. The film starts with the close-up of a tape recorder, recording the confessions of Kevin weeks, a former associate of Bulger to an FBI agent, thus taking us straight to the plot with no frills or dramatic opening scenes whatsoever. We hear the story of Bulger from a series of confessions from most of his erstwhile close associates, beginning with Weeks telling his first encounter with the mobster and his inclusion in to Bulger’s Winter Hill gang. The early acco