not one single cop?
Until I saw this film, I'd never seen a gangster/crime drama in which not one person of a law enforcement persuasion appears.
Is this typical of this director's movies? Is there some secret/idiosyncratic symbolism to this most unrealistic plot point? Does the director or writer merely want to show the characters in this story as being laws unto themselves, living and dying by their own code(s) of conduct?
Most crime movies will cloak their closed universes in dramatic license (two villains or a cop & villain(s) shooting it out in scenes that test your abilities to suspend disbelief while you watch combatants battle each other in a large, urban setting where nobody calls the police, or seems to hear any of the gunshots/fights/etc.), but this film takes that trope to an extreme level...
I just thought I'd mention it here, because amazingly enough nobody else here mentions it!
Gregory.