When the moment is just right, he goes in using his quickness and stealth, and takes what he can from them. It's no coincidence that when another pickpocket catches Michel in the act, it is in a men's room where their liaison involves money as a substitute for sex. Michel's character in Pickpocket seems to gets a sort of erotic gratification and psycho-sexual release when stealing from others: To stand extremely close to his victims to feel their light breathing and subtle body movements and reactions. The reasoning is immoral, but the characters claim special privileges above and beyond common morality." Robert Bresson is considered one of the great masters in the art form of the cinema and most of his films center around such spiritual themes which include salvation, sin, redemption, morality and the defining and revealing of the human soul. Pickpocket is considered a contemporary version of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as film critic Roger Ebert states, "Bresson's Michel, like Dostoyevsky's hero Raskolnikov, needs money in order to realize his dreams, and sees no reason why some lackluster ordinary person should not be forced to supply it. Michel is a professional pickpocket and thief, a character who leaves a completely isolated life emotionally detached from others and of the outside world. The main protagonist is named Michel a man whose looks are very ordinary and plain is neither handsome nor ugly and has the perfect demeanour to blend into the background, and disappear within a crowd unnoticed. I find these opening credits a curious irony because Robert Bresson's Pickpocket 'is' a thriller just not the standard thriller most people are used to experiencing. Using image and sound, the filmmaker strives to express the nightmare of a young man whose weaknesses lead him to commit acts of theft for which nothing destined him." "The style of this film is not that of a thriller.
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