From the beginning, the dichotomy between women and men is established in Michael Mann’s sprawling, epic masterpiece “Heat,” twenty-five years old this month.
However, its central thesis about the tragedy of masculinity remains evergreen. In what Mann himself calls a “symphonic drama” in an interview for Empire Magazine in 2008, the movie is more approximately an opera all of heightened emotions, the brawny men and the earthy women who mourn them even as they find themselves incapable of saving themselves from their brutal allure.
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