Keeping Focus
A look at the 2015 crime film starring a pre-Suicide Squad Will Smith and Margot Robbie

I was surprised that while watching Focus, a movie about the world of the con, that I found a read that could relate to filmmaking. In the first half of Focus, Will Smith’s Nicky, a veteran con artist advises Margot Robbie’s Jess, who is still relatively green in the profession, the power of gaining control over the focus of their marks. The idea that…