Heat (1995) [ESSAY]

Aesthetically, for a movie that's been out for over 20 years, it feels shockingly modern yet nostalgic. Modern insofar as how naturalistic the way it is shot and blocked and lit. Modern heist movies (good and bad) have aped the color grading, the subjective nature of the camera, the narrative foils. (The obvious example is Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight.) It set the gold standard for shootout scenes and how to portray a sense of realism. John Wick does not hold a candle to Heat. Andrew G...