Jordy 2021-10-13 13:06:14
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Kacie 2022-03-25 09:01:02
Wang Yang's reckless gang epic has inherited the fine traditions since "The Godfather". Scorsese is steady and styled. He is too good at handling biographical material. The unchanging iron law of old-school gangster movies: murder and robbery are okay, don't touch drugs. "Good guys" will not have an easy life, even if they are close to family for so long, they will eventually calculate each other and not end well. Is it worthwhile to trade the arrogance of the first half of life for the desolation of the second half of life?
Lina 2021-10-20 18:58:23
If Coppola made the gangster into an opera, then Scorsese made the gangster into a rock: there is no order, only chaos, everyone thinks he can control his destiny, but everyone has to bow his head in front of fate. After three years of rewatching, I found that I was still naive at the beginning, and it was amazing to marvel at the mirroring and editing of Lao Ma.
Henry Hill: [Narrating] These are the guys Jimmy put together for what turned out to be the biggest heist in American history: the Lufthansa heist. Tommy and Carbone were going to grab the outside guard and make him get us in the front door, Frenchy and Joe Buddha had to round up the workers, Johnny Roastbeef had to keep them all tied up and away from the alarm, even Stacks Edwards got in on it, all he was supposed to do was steal the panel truck and afterwards compact it with a friend of ours in New Jersey. Only Morrie was driving us nuts - just because he set this up, he felt he could bust Jimmy's balls for an advance on the money we were going to steal. He didn't mean anything by it; it was just the way he was.
Jimmy Conway: [referring to Henry and Karen] She'll never divorce him. She'll kill him but she won't divorce him.
