Mean Streets

Amos 2021-12-08 08:01:44

In fact, Martin Sicoses’ Little Italy no longer exists, not only the atmosphere, but also not much space left. Little Italy has long been annexed by Chinatown. When I was in New York in 2010, I looked for it carefully on the map, but I saw a Chinese restaurant within a few steps.
This is a...

Drew 2021-12-08 08:01:44

Adapted from a documentary of the same name directed by Martin Scorsese in 1970 and starring Robert De Niro, this distinctive style and moving plot is released, marking the most prolific and important director and star in the history of film Born. With the "Little Italy" area as the...

Edwardo 2022-04-23 07:02:05

The first collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, along with the then-young Harvey Keitel, was arguably the golden combination of gangster films. In the purest Martin style in the early days, the film describes an unconscious life state of the bottom members of the Mafia, and the character differences of the three friends in the smoke and alcohol atmosphere secretly determine their respective fates.

Jaquelin 2022-04-21 09:02:07

Watching this and "Goodfellas" on the same day, I can really see how Martin Scorsese has changed and unchanged. The occasional stop-motion and slow-motion, multi-angle jump cuts, and asynchrony between sound and picture, these elements that were more obvious in his early works, appear more regularly in "Goodfellas", and the good taste of the soundtrack is always the same. One of his strengths. Still taking gangsters in the Italian area of ​​the United States as the subject, the theme of gangs and brotherhood is also continuing. The change is that 17 years later, he replaced the individual struggling with his hands to the flames with a more flexible multi-angle narrative and a more macro perspective of God; he replaced the complex and moving emotions among the little gangsters with a shredded cocoon. Look at the power system within the gang, how the so-called goodfellow friendship becomes a joke in the face of profit. The former is more sincere, the latter is very skilled and sharp. 31, 48.