Side by side with Mike Corleone’s power in the film, the film presents a flashback to his father, Victor’s youth. These fragments that took place in Sicily and old New York adopt the traditional model of describing the struggle of young people and show how the Mafia's way is injected into the Corleone family's blood. If you want to do big things, you must use killing methods, and the veil of tender affection can't hide this. Coppola more or less weakened the brutality and violence of some scenes in the film. For example, in the scene where a young Widow killed the leader of a New York gangster, the camera was shot through Widow's perspective, followed by him over the roofs, tracking opponents, and then successfully escaped. At this time, the audience's perspective is integrated with the movie, creating an immersive sense of presence.
The part about Mike in "The Godfather 2" captured the audience's heart because of the ups and downs of the story. The film fully shows Mike's collapse under pressure. Many viewers still remember that when he was young, he was a proud war hero and successful college student who wanted to live a legitimate life. However, on the day he married Kay, his wife first realized that the Corleone family's control is all-encompassing, as suffocating as a cocoon. There will always be things that she will not be told or trusted. In the end, except for his elderly mother, Mike has no one to talk to and trust. In the focused and emotional conversation with his mother, Mike's desperation expressed sufficient commentary for the last scene of the movie.
Compared to the first episode of "The Godfather", the soundtrack in "The Godfather 2" played a greater role. Its nostalgic and sentimental melody reminds people of an age that has passed away, and has set off many emotional fluctuations in people's hearts that are not part of such a story; if the film uses the traditional soundtrack technique of crime films, the audience will not be like this. Emotional. In "The Godfather 2", Mike Corleone loses his remaining conscience and becomes an empty shell of lost soul, fearful and ruthless in his heart. If music evokes mercy, it is Mike's self-compassion. If Nino Rota's soundtrack was more powerful, the audience might understand Mike as a character like Tony Montana in the movie "Scarface." However, the sad music of the film has a completely different effect, because the role of music in fueling emotions is often more powerful and subtle than the story itselfreviewed.
