Mean Street

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.

Keeley 2022-04-22 07:01:27

I watched two Martin Scorsese films in two days. Compared with the last film, The Age of Innocence, this film has a better grasp of emotions, and the climax and conflict of the play are more accurate. This film has the prototype of a taxi driver. But it hasn't reached that tension yet, like a full bow