The Italian movie "Black Gold Traitor" is based on real characters and events, but looks back at the history of the rise and fall of the Italian Mafia in Sicily. In the 1980s, during the huge heroin trade in Palermo, Italy, during the confrontation between the two gangster families, the actor Domaso Busida wanted to retreat bravely. His greatest ideal was to die in bed safely, so he was far away. Going to Brazil, but Reina of the Corleone family, another gangster family, is ambitious and wants to dominate the rivers and lakes. Even if Busida has gone away, Reina still kills his family.
This movie has been compared with "The Godfather" by many people. If "The Godfather" is a brief history of the American Mafia, this "Black Gold Traitor" is the story of the godfather in Sicily, Italy. Like the opening chapter of "The Godfather", it was a superficial gathering at the beginning, followed by a cold killing. A generation of godfathers began to choose to cooperate with the government and launched a revenge plan.
We can see a very realistic mafia culture in the movies. They don't call themselves "mafia", they call it "our career", they call themselves "gentleman", and they have a strict committee and hierarchical management system.
When the Mafia is an image translation of our Chinese, it is mainly because of their habit of leaving black handprints after killing at that time. The Italian counterpart is "Mafia". This word originated from the Sicilian uprising on March 30, 1282, the day before Valentine's Day. A Palermo girl named Sofia was raped by French soldiers on the day of her wedding. In revenge on a large scale, the slogan they shouted out was "Morto Alla Francia, Italia Anela" (Italian "eliminating France is Italy's desire"), and Mafia is the acronym for this slogan.
This word also means "a place of refuge" in Arabic. This mysterious organization originally originated in Sicily, Italy and Corsica, France. For more than 100 years, as Italians gradually immigrated to all parts of the world, the Mafia also spread widely, especially on the east coast of the United States. Bigger and stronger. With the help of the Great Depression in the United States, the massive unemployment wave and the surge in crime, the Mafia ushered in its own golden age. They engaged in various illegal transactions. During the 1970s and 1980s, following the US Federal Investigation The Mafia was also in decline due to a series of blows by the Bureau. Italy also cleaned up its own Mafia group some time later. Nevertheless, as a subculture, the Mafia still influences social trends such as film and television.
In "Black Gold Traitors", we can see that the social foundation of the Mafia is that a large number of unemployed people thank the Mafia for their work and hold a demonstration to support the Mafia. Behind the crime are profound social problems.
The rebellious Busida's confrontation with the former gang leaders in court is the main confrontation scene depicted in the movie. He does not think that he betrayed "our cause". There used to be rules in the history of the Mafia, and there were also some who helped the poor. On the one hand, he is more like a defender of the traditional values of the Mafia. Reina represents the bottomless gameplay in the era of "ritual collapse and music destruction". What maintains the Mafia is strict discipline. This is the so-called "seven commandments": 1. Keep your mouth tight; 2. The organization is higher than the individual; 3. Do not defy orders from superiors; 4. Do not rebel and surrender; 5. Keep your family secret; 6. Do not engage in kidnapping activities without permission; Obviously, Busida’s method of cooperating with the government is also unacceptable to the traditional mafia. He has been under the protection of the government for the rest of his life and lived carefully until the gangsters are in jail, and he is also very old. But while blowing on the balcony, he still carried a submachine gun uneasy. The movie filmed the real incident of the murder of a famous Italian judge in the history of the Mafia, and also involved the politician behind the scenes. Former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, a member of the Italian Catholic Democratic Party, was charged with The Mafia was connected, but he was eventually found not guilty because the trial involved behavior has exceeded the time limit for prosecution.
Historically, in 1990, the Mafia in Italy had a total of 142 families, of which 42 were large families. The families communicate through a committee. In Italy, every province with a Mafia has a committee that can kill people within the sphere of influence of any family without notifying the family members. When the committee decides to kill, it organizes a firing squad, and the firing squad leader has the right to select the team members. Nobody else knows about their actions except the executor. There is also an 11-member committee on the committee, called the 11-member committee, located in Palermo, which is above all mafia families and is also the highest authority of the mafia. There is a pope or godfather in the 11-member committee, which is the highest position in the Mafia. The assassination of the killer must be approved by the family leader, otherwise private retaliation may trigger a war. To understand these mafia cultures, you will have a deeper understanding of their words mentioned in the film, and the film is also very careful in this regard.
They have a unique family culture in the movie, where power, desire, affection, ethics, and religious beliefs are mixed into this huge "criminal family". A generation of godfather-level figures, once billionaires, money beauties like clouds, but in old age but exiled to the United States, living a simple and careful life. The end of the movie will remind people of "The Irishman", no matter how popular it was at the beginning, it will still be old in the end.
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