“Catch Me If You Can" is a rare crime biography film in Hollywood. It reinterprets the many means of social engineering fraud with a unique perspective, which is praiseworthy. "Catch Me If You Can" is a criminal biography type movie starring Leonardo, Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken. After the release of this movie in the United States, it caused a lot of repercussions. The retrospective craze for the history of the characters, and Christopher Walken also nominated the best supporting actor in the 75th Academy Awards. The film is adapted from real people and tells the story of Frank Abagnale, the most extraordinary swindler of the 20th century. The film's true protagonist, Frank W. Abagnale, was also transferred to become a consultant and lecturer at the FBI's research institutes and field offices. Frank is the story of the youngest wanted criminal in the history of the FBI. His criminal means are superb, and his ability to disguise his identity is beyond ordinary people. His criminal footprint is almost everywhere in the United States. Disguised doctors, lawyers, and pilots are his former identity.
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Frank used this "skill" to defraud millions of dollars, but when he was away, Frank once again succeeded in forging a certificate of education and went to the hospital to be a doctor. Not only did Frank know the nurse Breda here, but also the two of them wiped out the spark of love, and they also got a prosecutor's assistant's advantage through Breda's father. But this is just the eve of the storm. A pair of eyes have been fixed on Frank, and vowed to bring him to justice. This is the FBI agent Carl. In the process of pursuing the pursuit of Frank, Karl taught the extraordinary IQ of this criminal genius. He has been repeatedly teased by Frank, the yellow-haired boy, and he has to hate and admire. Whenever Frank escaped from his elaborate layout, he finally captured this genius film under the careful planning of Carl.
The film has a high degree of resilience and strong innovation, and it is extremely rare to show the audience a lot of social engineering fraud, and it has a basis for it. The famous hacker Mitnick said in "The Art of Deception" that "social worker fraud is actually a means of harm such as deception, injury, etc. through psychological traps such as psychological weakness, instinctive reaction, curiosity, trust, greed, etc.” This kind of fraud is more difficult to guard against than technical fraud, because the weakness and inferiority of human nature are always the most vulnerable to being defeated. Spielberg once again showed his strong visual narrative ability in this movie, and the characters of the script were chained into a string through the protagonist Frank's deception clues. Through the montage technique, jumping and interspersing on the timeline shows Frank's increasingly mature scam skills and camouflage ability. The film as a whole is swayed, depicting the process of this genius liar from impunity to imprisonment. The film formed a huge tension in the battle between Frank and Karl, and then stopped unexpectedly.
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Perhaps in the eyes of the audience, many of the scams in the film are old-fashioned and unsuitable for the present, but it is important to emphasize that in the old society of the 1960s and 1970s, it was possible to find loopholes in administrative law enforcement. Leonardo's interpretation of the young, arrogant and alert and cautious Frank is perfect. The multi-faceted character became stereoscopic and credible under panic and anxiety. Leonardo's many seemingly inadvertent small movements in the film add a labeling meaning to the characters, which makes people realize it after watching. "Catch Me If You Can", as the leader of this type of fraud crime, provides a wealth of inspiration and reference for many latecomers.
My Score is 9/10
Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/640-catch-me-if-you-can?language=en-US
Critic: AAA