Guest blogger: Ellie 1

The Town is set in Boston. Ben Affleck plays a character Doug. Doug and a group of his friends rob banks in the town. In one robbery the character Jem, Doug’s good friend and sidekick takes the bank manager hostage her name is Claire. After the robbery Doug follows Claire and gets to know her. Doug wants her to talk to the FBI, all the while Claire has no idea who Doug really is and doesn’t know that Doug was the main person in the robbery. Throughout the movie Claire and Doug develop feelings for each other. This movie is really about how when Doug develops a relationship with Claire it makes Doug realize that what he’s doing isn’t right and how he wants to better his life and how he wants to do that is to start a new life with Claire.
Ben Affleck is the main character in the film and also the director. In this movie I felt he did a very good job of acting and directing the film, I really enjoyed watching his character. I normally don’t like action movies but Ben Affleck made it interesting.
An important character in the movie is the main character Doug. Doug has many traits as a character. Doug‘s traits include caring (which isn’t shown until he meets Claire) Doug is also very sly, hard worker, smart. Doug’s motivation’s in life at the beginning of the movie are money and crime but change when he realizes he is leading a bad life. Claire is another important character in the movie that had many traits and motivations. Claire is a sweet girl, shy, timid. Claire doesn’t seem very trusting towards men. Claire’s motivation is to find someone that won’t betray her in life and someone she can trust. A last character that sticks out to me is Jem. Jem is a master criminal, and that’s the only thing that is important to him in life. He’s deceiving, sly, mean, and selfish. Jem’s only motivation in life is to rob banks and live a life of crime just to get as much money as he can.
A theme I take away from this movie is if your life is headed in a bad direction, then change it. In this movie Doug knows what he is doing is bad and he knows he needs to change. I think Doug having Claire in his life gave him some sort of motivation to change and better himself. I think that is the important message that you have the power to change anything in your life if you want it bad enough and you put your mind to it.
“So no, The Town isn’t original in any sense of the word, but Affleck does a marvelous job executing all of the pieces. Affleck also gets to wear multiple hats – he shows off his directorial and writing skills here.” Review by Michelle Alexandria. I agree with this review, I really did enjoy the movie but the only thing I didn’t like about it that it was a typical crime movie with a love story twisted into it.
Overall, I think this movie was great. For someone who normally doesn’t like crime type of movies it was very good. I also liked that it had a love story in it. I say it would definitely be worth the time and money to watch it, it has something for all types of movie goers.