The bank I go to gets robbed by four masked men wielding semi-automatic or automatic weapons, everybody–customers and employees alike are forced to the floor, and I see another customer or employee, or even a close friend I went into the bank with pistol-whipped and permanently injured or killed by one of the men, I obey their orders, and just maybe 2 or 3 days later, while I’m either eating lunch in a local cafe or doing my laundry in a local laundromat, I’m approached by a very handsome, smooth-talking sweet guy as I’m crying and groveling over the memory of what has just happened, and he comforts me by stupid jokes, is sympathetic and asks me out on a date, and he turns out to be one of the guys who kicked over my bank at gunpoint and kidnapped me or somebody else? Ha!

As if something like that would happen in real life! I’m talking about The Town and how it ;provides the message that it’s okay to steal from people, beat them and seriously injure or kill them in the process, and then put the romance moves on an attractive bank employee or someone else, worm one’s way into their heart and gain their trust so they won’t go to the Feds, and, in general exploit them as a bargaining chip so that you and your buddies don’t go back to prison?

I mean the idea that this kind of thing would even happen in real life, or at all, is so implausible. The idea that a woman, especially one who’s just been victimized by an armed robbery and abduction can be so gullible as to accept a date and get romantically involved with some guy who, in fact, turns out to be someone who victimized her in the first place and then stick with him even after learning who he really is, and after the Feds have learned of her relationship between her and the robber, is not only stupid, but implausible.

Also, it’s highly unlikely that a Townie (a lifelong Charlestown resident) would ever partner up with a Toonie (a yuppie who’s not from Charlestown), especially because the town-gown tensions here in Boston are far too acute for that.

What I mentioned is also another big problem with The Town, imho; the idea of an armed bank robber who’s being hunted down by the Feds and the law, generally, having sympathy for a crying, grovelling woman that he’s been trailing for awhile anyway and met “by chance” in a laundromat or cafe is highly unlikely. I think the opposite would happen in real life: the guy would probably take furthur advantage of a weepy, scared woman who he and his buddies just robbed and kidnapped at gunpoint and either beat the crap out of her, gang-raped, thrown her into a dark alley, or possibly shot her and thrown her into the Mystic River.

Sorry for rambling, folks, but that’s just my opinion. The same could be said if it were a woman with Asperger’s, ADD, a seizure disorder, or any other learning or developmental disability. Just saying.