Here, in color and widescreen, is a shot straight of out of a late silent. This is the first image of Plastic City after the credits and it really is, I tell Yu, a silent image, a Lang image. A hand holds a stack of bills above a crowd and loosens its grip to let them flutter into the wind, down on the people. It’s a perfect opening shot for a gangster movie—a strong image, a metaphor for the appeal of gangster fiction. The fantasy at the heart of gangsterism: the tough hand that take the money, but which can also loosen its grip enough to let it trickle down to the community. What gangsters want to be, and what we want them to be. (via the auteurs)