The Thomas Crown Affair
Synopsis: “The Thomas Crown Affair” is a 1999 American heist film.
The story is that at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York there is an attempted robbery of precious paintings. But the action fails, because the employees of the museum discover imposters posing as staff. Nevertheless, there is widely spread confusion in the museum, and in such moment, the main character, Thomas Crown, manages to enter unseen in one of the museum’s rooms and steal the painting of San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk by Monet, a piece insured for $100 million.
NYPD comes to investigate the case, but the insurance company is restless, unhappy with paying the amount for which the Monet had been insured and sends their investigator Catherine Banning. She discovers that the billionaire Crown has stolen the painting for the pleasure of having it in his own abode, but as they fall in love one with another, the story takes a shift.
My opinion: In order to steal the Monet and get away with it, Thomas Crown thinks of creating confusion in the museum, through a failed attempt of stealing another painting he was not interested in – so he hires a team of Romanians. They are presented as petty thieves, who have no clue as to whom is paying them for the fake robbery. They fail miserably in their attempt – but that was the plan from the beginning. Yet, the Romanians fail because they are simpletons, not because they know this is the plan and act in accordance. At the police quarters were the mean-looking Romanians are held, Rene Russo comes and with a bad-ass attitude puts them down and bullies them. The idea that comes to mind is that Romanians can't even be "first-rate" thieves – they are idiotic and incompetent, up to no good, small-time delinquents.
