IndieWire - To call "The Getaway" (1972) a heist flick is like calling "Jaws" a film about fish: technically speaking you'd be right, but you'd also be missing the point entirely. Sam Peckinpah's Steve McQueen/Ali MacGraw vehicle is a tough, mean, innovative picture in which "getting away" has to do with a lot more than not getting arrested.
The Getaway King is the story of an 80s Communist era Polish thief Zdislaw Najmrodzki, who makes his fortune by stealing and reselling luxury goods. His life takes a new turn when he meets Teresa and falls in love.
An analytical mind can, and will, find patterns behind everything, whether they are there or not. It is one of the many reasons why films and other forms of fiction are so often dissected and recast to reveal hidden meanings and deeper truths, by those who would think a little too much, a little too hard.
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Steve McQueen was the best! The Getaway...was the best! Put him in anything with wheels and he was awesome......Bullet, The Great Escape, Le Mans....
You could also include the Thomas Crown Affair in that because if the heist isn't just about not getting arrested Steve McQueen also did that in this film. It was about how you played the game and got away with it.