Bonnie and Clyde

A week ago I watched for the first time the movie Bonnie and Clyde, a film based on the true story of two notorious bank robber in the 1920s: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Trailer is below:



It's always interesting to see a story that personalizes people who steal and kill people, but what's more interesting is what motivates these two characters. If anything, this is a story about two people who are trying to live forever by ensuring they would be legends.

Bonnie Parker, in the beginning, lives in a small town where she lives routinely as a waitress, and when she meets Clyde Barrow for the first time (who claims he robs banks), she is excited by what looks like to be an opportunity of danger and adventure. And the two run off and start robbing banks, but the entire time they're being chased by the authorities. And throughout this journey, they constantly look for their names in the newspaper, taking pleasure for being a center of attention.

At one point in the film, Bonnie writes a poem to submit into the newspaper herself...titled "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde." When Clyde reads it, he turns to Bonnie and says "You made me someone that people will remember." It didn't matter what they would be remembered for--killing and stealing--but that they will be remembered was good enough. It was sad to see that this man and woman who could spend their lives together instead try so incredibly hard to become legends, or in other words, try incredibly hard to die.