The Box Man Analysis
The movie starts out with a group of men breaking into a building to steal money. The safe-cracker, also referred to as “The boxman,” is a young man by the name of Jason McAlister. He is a quirky and unconventional in the way that he listens to music while he dance walks to the safe and does not hurt anyone personally. However, the other men who are with him are tying up hostages and knocking out people in the building. One of the hostages manages to call the police and the men have to rush through the rest of their Jason cracks the safe with no problem listening to his music the whole time. The men rush into the safe and start taking all of the money inside. There are also several papers on shelves which Jason has been instructed not to take,
…show more content…
Jason goes off by himself and looks at the roll of paper he sneaked into his backpack. We see a quick glimpse that they are some sort of blueprints. He hears someone approaching him and quickly stuffs the blueprints back into his backpack. The driver from the heist comes to talk to him. He tells him that he was glad that Jason lived up to his reputation of being one of the quickest boxmen in the business. Jason responds that he is not in the business, he is just doing what he has to. This is where we learn that Jason was forced to do this because he broke into the boss’ house to try and make some money. The boss caught him and was about to kill him when he realized that he broke into his high security safe with great ease. He allowed him to live but he would have to be his new “boxman.” This last heist was Jason’s first on the team. Jason looks somewhat somber after telling this story. The driver tells him not to feel bad about breaking into the vault, the people who owned it were corrupt and the police were trailing them anyway. He tells Jason that they are like Robin Hood, except that they keep money. After the team is done celebrating, they all go their spate ways with their shares of the money. Jason gets to his apartment and sits down at his coffee table to count his money, when he is done, he looks in his bag and sees the blueprints. He grabs them and goes over to his television which
Jason goes off by himself and looks at the roll of paper he sneaked into his backpack. We see a quick glimpse that they are some sort of blueprints. He hears someone approaching him and quickly stuffs the blueprints back into his backpack. The driver from the heist comes to talk to him. He tells him that he was glad that Jason lived up to his reputation of being one of the quickest boxmen in the business. Jason responds that he is not in the business, he is just doing what he has to. This is where we learn that Jason was forced to do this because he broke into the boss’ house to try and make some money. The boss caught him and was about to kill him when he realized that he broke into his high security safe with great ease. He allowed him to live but he would have to be his new “boxman.” This last heist was Jason’s first on the team. Jason looks somewhat somber after telling this story. The driver tells him not to feel bad about breaking into the vault, the people who owned it were corrupt and the police were trailing them anyway. He tells Jason that they are like Robin Hood, except that they keep money. After the team is done celebrating, they all go their spate ways with their shares of the money. Jason gets to his apartment and sits down at his coffee table to count his money, when he is done, he looks in his bag and sees the blueprints. He grabs them and goes over to his television which