3 hours and 21 minutes is a bit too long for an ordinary movie, but for this "Godfather 2", I don't think I have watched enough. The film tells people about the history of the first godfather Vito Corleone and the hard work of the second godfather Mike Corleone in "The Godfather". The cross-play of the two main lines is not too complicated. The more you compare, the more difficult it is to find the microphone. How can you be so helpless?
Side by side with Mike Corleone’s power in the film is a flashback to his father Vito’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 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 Vito killed the New York gang leader when he was young, the camera was shot through Vito's perspective and followed him over the rooftops, 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 he was a proud war hero and successful college student when he was young, and he wanted to live a legitimate and legal life. However, on the day he married Kay, his wife first realized that the Corleone family's control was 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 confide in and trust. In the focused and emotional conversation with his mother, Mike's despair showed 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 era 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 a little conscience that remains in his body, and becomes a lost shell with a panic and cruel heart. If music evokes mercy, it is Mike's self-compassion. If Nino Rota’s soundtrack beats a bit more powerfully, the audience might interpret 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 the emotions is often more powerful and subtle than the story itself.
Perhaps it was Mike's childhood and even youth that carried too much love from his father, and God wants to take back these love bit by bit. Compared to Mike's unscrupulous measures, I still prefer Vito's principle: I want to give them benefits, and they can't refuse me.
Vito is a successful godfather because he won the respect of everyone. Although Mike held onto the territory of the family business and stretched his hand farther, there was no one beside him to talk to. In general, Mike still failed!
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