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The film sheds its genre trappings in its pursuit of languorous new rhythms.
The thieves here are not looking to get rich.
Three and a half years in jail, or 25 at the bank?
Morans devious plan is quite simple: Hell confess to the robbery and get three years in prison.
Afterward, the two men will have just enough to not have to work for a living.
The goal is not wealth; its liberty.
But is such a goal, such a world, even possible?
Clocking in at 183 minutes, The Delinquentsis a movie of detours both narrative and formal.
Moran seems like such a downcast schlub at the office, where hes basically an anonymous and confined pencil-pusher.
This is partly due to Morenos light, humorous touch when it comes to storytelling.
But the film also works because its structure is so loose.
Its a vision of a life unlived as impossible as it is intoxicating.
