In the first part, the old godfather once chatted with Mike in the garden in his twilight years. The old godfather asked Mike if he was with his family. He also asked Sonny the same question. That time was at Connie’s wedding. The questioning all showed that the old godfather's most concerned issue was deeply rooted in his heart, a happy family. It is the foundation of the philosophy he created. Sonny and Mike didn't hesitate to say yes, because they also knew what status and significance the old godfather had in the heart of whether to accompany a good family. When they finished saying "yes", the old godfather said to them very positively, good! Especially during the conversation with Mike, he said that men should not be careless, and then asked how Mike gets along with his wife and children. Mike said, very good. Anthony is smarter than him and has started to read comic books, the old godfather. After listening, he showed a very warm, relieved, and steadfast smile. You must know how cold he is when facing the enemy in business, but that is not the real Vito Corleone, it is for the family, the inattentive Vito, and the truth He was when he faced his family. At that time, he was easy, warm and even a little funny and naive (for example, from the last moment of his life, he played with his grandson Anthony in the yard and chased. Will Vito be true to his family The side of the show is undoubtedly obvious. He did not forget to make a grimace for his grandson and play with Anthony in an orange skin pretending to be horrible. This cruel and ruthless person in the eyes of his enemies is so kind and naive to his family). The old godfather’s expectations of Anthony may be the same as his expectations of Mike, and he must also hope that his beloved grandson, this boy who also has the blood of the Corleone family, will one day grow into a man upright, inheriting the Corleone family’s everything. The smile filled the old godfather’s face, as if to keep rippling in such happiness, but before he had time to savor carefully, suddenly, the old godfather changed his expression (Marlon Brando’s performance in this scene can be described as It is perfect and superb. He is worthy of a generation of actor, the actor of the "godfather level"), the sudden change is so natural, this scene is very worthy of everyone's attention. Because he knows that if this happiness really wants to be kept for a long time, it can't just stay on his face, it has to stay in his heart, and for this, he must not be careless. This is exactly the answer. What he said to Mike, women can be careless, but men can't have any carelessness, and what he wants to say next is what he wants Mike to pay attention to. It is a business matter, and it is related to the rise and fall of the family. All the lives of the dear ones who live in peace and happiness must not be sloppy. At the same time, the old godfather here also explained an important reason why he can become such a heavyweight.
Anthony is actually more than the old godfather’s hope, because he is Mike’s son after all, and he is Mike’s greatest hope. For example, if he says Anthony is smarter than him, he is already ready to hand over everything in the future to this smarter Corleone. . But at the same time, Mike took on the task that his father did not complete, that is, to do everything possible to wash away all the stains of the Corleone family little by little, and become a legal family with a legal business, and this is also the case. His promise to Kay. That's why he prepared early for Anthony to study law, but the Corleone family's industry (gambling, entertainment) is too deeply rooted (the third story basically revolves around this purpose). Mike's love for Anthony also made Anthony eager to help his father, who was very busy every day. In the second part, Mike went to see Anthony on the night of the attempted assassination and told Anthony that he was going on a business trip. Anthony said I can help you. ? Even though he was a child at that time, he still didn’t know what his father was doing every day, and he didn’t know the philosophical significance of the Corleone family (in fact, in the end Anthony did not understand the philosophical significance of the Corleone family because he gave up Any possibility of doing something for the Corleone family, focusing on the music business), Mike told little Anthony with deep meaning that he will, and one day he will. But, maybe we should see that Mike wants Anthony to live a carefree life and keep him away from all the noise and darkness. Anthony who grows up in such an atmosphere is bound to be a simple one without any sense of crisis. people. He will also have a more simple love and hatred, and because of Fried’s affairs and his mother Kay’s teachings, he is destined to take a completely different path from the path Mike designed for him in the rebellion of adolescence. .
The growth environment of the old godfather's three sons is not because they are completely different from him, making it impossible for the three children to have the same mentality as him. Therefore, in the inheritance of the Corleone family's family philosophy, the differences can be found at the beginning, and the old godfather may see even more from their adulthood that only Mike is closer to the Corleone family's philosophy. In the first part, at Connie’s wedding, Sonny fucked with her wife and a woman at the banquet. This is normal for Sonny, but it actually violates the old godfather’s family philosophy. Why is it not like this for Fried? Let alone the mistake he made to become an enemy of the family, Fried is a loser in the family, and he can't even care about his wife dancing and flirting with others at the family banquet. So in terms of basic family qualities, Mike is the one who recently took up Corleone’s family philosophy. This is why Mike is not interested or even resistant to family business, but the old godfather still cares about him the most, because the old godfather knows that Mike has My own thoughts desire freedom, but Mike loves him, respects him, loves this family, and respects this family.
In the second scene, the middle-aged Vito and Abandantu (Vito’s military adviser) are watching an Italian drama in a small theater. Abandantou points to an actor on the stage and asks Vito, I’m the most How about this beloved girl, Vito answered very honestly, very good, but only for you, for me, he pointed to his own heart and said, I only have my wife and children in my heart.
A large part of the entire second part talks about the process of Vito fleeing and killing, coming to the United States to survive and get the start of his career, and in this process, we have been able to see the Corleone family established by Vito Corleone The root of philosophy is because the teenager was killed by the door. He saw his brother shot dead and when he went to intercede with his mother, witnessed the murder of his mother in order to protect him. He fled to Vito in the United States. Maybe from that time Starting from the family in my heart, I already have a completely different value concept for the family from others. This also enabled Vito Corleone to have a strong sense of family responsibility for his family after he became an adult and after he got married. This is actually because he, as an Italian exiled to the United States, was able to build a strong family in the United States. The root of the reason. Because he loves his family so much, he has unlimited desires and desires to get his family out of trouble, and because of this, he has gained great respect from friends and outsiders, and he has his own career. Vito Corleone established his family philosophy, and throughout his life, this family philosophy was inherited by Mike and Vincent.
What Vito Corleone has never changed, whether in the most impoverished period or in his most energetic period, is his deep, unique love for his wife, for his children, for his family. In the second part, he lost his job in the bleak situation. He was almost penniless but took out a piece of sweet potato to his wife when he returned home. On the one hand, this made his wife unaware that he lost his job because he I don’t want his wife to have any worries about life. On the other hand, maybe this is his habit. The habit of going home every time is his habit of giving material to his family. This habit prevents him from losing it. Work becomes a state of embarrassment. There was also that time Clemissa gave him a carpet. Although it was a steal, Vito saw the happiness of his wife and children on that carpet. Maybe at that time he already knew how to make his family live better. Well, this requires better material security. Similarly, in the second part, there is another scene where little Fried has pneumonia and a neighbor comes to help treat Vito Corleone, this hard-blooded man, in his eyes when he looks at little Fried who is suffering. There were faint tears flashing, and he was so helpless and compassionate. In life, no matter how strong he is, facing his family Vito Corleone is extremely soft. Except for Sonny's death, the old godfather's wife has been satisfied for life and is at ease.
Vito's strong sense of responsibility to his family and his tenderness to his relatives and friends have made him highly respected by his relatives and friends. They have no doubts about Vito's love and respect, and they are absolutely loyal. This is also the danger of infidelity, because as long as someone doubts love, then this is the beginning of his unfaithfulness. This unfaithfulness may bring people a smooth benefit and let him get the life he wants more, but that's it. It has caused him to suffer spiritual pain on the road of unfaithfulness, but perhaps insisting on a philosophy will bring people to another extreme, although this is a manifestation of loyalty. This is where the paradox lies. What should we insist on or give up? What is the basis for loyalty and unfaithfulness? Does persistence necessarily mean loyalty, and not persistence means unfaithfulness? I don't know whether honesty has to face the temper of such a paradox.
The old godfather never discusses business at the dinner table is not his intention, because he knows that the dinner table is a place where the family gathers, and the most important thing for the family together is family affection rather than business. In the old godfather’s mind, business is just for The guarantee of a better family sitting together is to provide the family with the most comfortable living environment, the most delicious and delicious food tool, and it is an accessory to the family. There are many specific details about the respect of the old godfather. For example, in the memory of the second book, the family got together to prepare for his birthday. Although Mike made unpleasant decisions about his future without permission, he was the old godfather. At home, the enthusiastic cheers of people are entirely from the heart, undisguised love. The old godfather's dedication to the family throughout his life, for him, the greatest reward actually does not come from others, it is from Mike. That was when he was weakest and helpless. He was assassinated and was seriously injured when he was living in the hospital. Mike went to the hospital to visit the old godfather and found no guards. He knew it was a conspiracy. An assassination. Of course he knew he and his How dangerous his father was, but he remained calm and calm and asked the nurse to help move the old godfather to another hidden room. When Mike placed the declining old godfather in another room, he held the old godfather's hand and whispered in the old godfather's ear, Dad, with me here, I will always be with you, don't worry. The attentive audience must be able to see that the old godfather, who was already weak to a vegetative state at the time, shed tears. This man who may not have cried in his life, the rock-hard man cried at that time. For the old godfather, Mike's words were worth all his life and enough.
For the old godfather Vito Corleone, the philosophy of family is actually contained in love, and the tragedy of Mike and Vincent compared with the old godfather is that what they two lost is the more fundamental philosophy after the family. That is love. It is love that gives the home its meaning. The arrival of a woman with a foreign surname, she is not a guest but a home, the real master of a clan. We kissed a woman and married her, we inherited the meaning of "home", and there will be children born later, and when we kissed that little life for the first time, it was nothing but home. The beginning of the inheritance of love, because that is the beginning of the inheritance of love, that kiss is a sacred ceremony of blessing love, because from the beginning of this kiss, he/she will find another person to kiss her/him and love her/him . The old godfather's strong sense of family responsibility hidden deep in his heart because of his strong love for his wife made him open up a family prosperity, and his wife and children loved him like that.
He told Mike that I have no regrets in my life because I took care of my family. This is the most profound summary of the old godfather's life. It is the root of Corleone's family philosophy. But perhaps the eternity in life is nothing but a paradox, a paradox that cannot be changed. Since Sonny was shot and killed, this paradox has appeared. The great family and the great philosophy have to suffer "great" pain because of this. This pain has appeared vividly since Mike, if it is a paradox to lose the big brother. On the beginning of God’s will, then, Mike killed his brother-in-law and his closest relatives and his second brother for family philosophy. Isn’t it a paradox of helpless horror? Because of this, he lost the love of his elder son Anthony, he lost his love kay, but is it all his fault? His original intention is as he said at the beginning of the third movie, I spent my whole life To protect my family. He did it this way, he was, but he lost his love and family affection, so does everything he did make sense? However, he has no choice. He must use his whole life to do all this. The most feared part of this paradox is that once a person embarks on a belief, he must go to life without hesitation. At the end, no matter whether the belief itself is right or wrong. Mike chose his philosophy to defend his family, but he irreversibly entered that terrible paradox whirlpool, but can it be saved? We all understand this truth, didn't Mike finally see this paradox? He is a great man. Of course he has seen it. Even if he goes deep into the puzzle, he is still sober. Mike didn't want to have any trouble with the family business from the beginning, but can he? In addition to accidents, Corleone's blood has been flowing since he was born. This is everything he is destined to do. His surname is Corleone, and he must be responsible for the family.
And, no matter how much he resisted his family's business when he was young, he never resisted his family, his brothers and sisters, his mother, his terrible but kind father. It wasn't until the old godfather was shot and until Sonny was killed that he took the mission-like "will" and resolutely chose to take on the responsibility of protecting the family. He had no choice, and his love was built on Indifferent to the family business, he told Kay about the terrible aspects of his family and at the same time assured her that he would not contaminate anything in the family. Yes, he really loved Kay to say all this, because He is really going to marry this woman and wants to form a "home" with her, their home! A home different from the Corleone family. But can it? Mike's love is true, but his promise may be too sloppy in the past (but that is the eternal sloppy of love), he did not realize the price he was going to pay for it. Kay's resoluteness is because she did not really stand in the whole world of Mike for the man who loves him deeply. This is the paradox of love. So in the end, they still cannot have the same family philosophy as their relatives. An independent individual. So she can't be a woman who really thinks about Mike from the perspective of the family like Mike's sister. She insists that Mike deceived her and deceived their belief in love. Deceived their "home"!
Kay’s love for Mike is actually worth discussing. The three films actually corresponded to the three times kay’s sorrow for Mike. One was at the end of the first part. She asked Mike Connie if her husband was killed by Mike. When Mike was in her Kay breathed a sigh of relief under his "duh" gaze. At that time, he believed that Mike had not violated their vows and refused to accept his sinful family business, but in the end when she accidentally broke through the door When she saw Mike sitting on the old godfather’s chair and accepting kisses from others, her expression was stunned. At that moment, she should definitely feel that Mike deceived her and deceived their vows. The second act came from the second and the last act appeared in the In the third part, Mike and Kay are preparing to watch their son’s concert in Sicily. He and Kay finally have the opportunity to talk about their conflicts alone. This conversation can be said to be the most profound summary of Mike and Kay’s love. Kay said that she hopes and disappoints every time, her hope is so real, because Mike’s love for her is real, and her disappointment is also so real, because Mike can’t help but violate the relationship between them. The "crime" of maintaining the family in the love covenant. At the end of the conversation, Mike told Kay that he would never sin again. Kay finally believed in Mike again because she knew that Mike's love for her was beyond doubt. But as soon as the promise was finished, it was learned that Thomas Siro was assassinated. The moment Mike and his servant walked away arm-on-the-shoulder, the camera once again gave Kay, who had just gained hope, and she had faced Mike Yuan again in her old age. The back of the past is stunned. Mike's love is true, but his "deception" is also true. This is another tragic paradox of Mike's fate. This is the helplessness of his firm belief in his faith.
So Kay can of course leave Mike because of these things, and take their children away from Mike, why not marry another person, because she needs a home she wants, a simple, tender one and her life pursuit , A home with the same family philosophy. Mike did this, but the family is too big, and to maintain it, you have to compromise on many things. This includes compromising kay. This is the most important portrayal of Mike's tragic life. Therefore, when Mike confessed to the priest in the third part, he revealed all the doubts and panic hidden in the heart of this strong man. What he said in the first sentence is nothing else, he said that he betrayed her wife and deceived his wife. This sentence contains Mike's true love for Kay. After that, he confessed to the priest the suffering he endured in all his paradoxes. The sadness of his life was concentrated in his confession. Before the confession, the dialogue with the cardinal was also very worth thinking about. Lin Baitu asked him to do it. Confession, and Mike said, if I don’t change, what is the use of confession? This sentence has completely told us that Mike knew all the mistakes of his life, but he had to do this, and he could not stop to reach the end of his life. At that time, the film was actually about to go to Mike and the next. The third killing of a generation of godfathers to protect the family included the killing of Lin Batu, the cardinal of the upcoming pope, and his death may only be because of the true fear and true sin of Mike he knew. too much. But the benevolent Lin Baitu still taught Mike to tell all the horrors and all the shadows hidden in his own heart. If these things said these things would relieve him, or would it aggravate Mike's sadness afterwards? He should have thought of this question at that time, so he kept hesitating and hesitating. After Mike finished talking about betraying his wife, he really started to accuse himself for his whole life. He went on to say, he betrayed himself, what did he betray his own? In order to inherit the belief of the family philosophy that he had to inherit, what did he have to sell his own? There must be honesty, kindness, kindness, etc., which was once Mike's persistent belief, the belief that made him reject the family business in his heart, but why does he have to sell all of his own? Because he must stick to another philosophical belief, another position, a last resort sense of mission and responsibility of the family. He must abandon everything else to defend the glory and prosperity of this family. It is precisely because his sister understands all this that he can walk out of the bitter grief of Mike's hatred for Mike when he killed her husband, and become a woman who truly supports Mike and truly loves and respects this man. This is something Kay will never be able to do, thinking that she is not surnamed Corleone after all, she is completely free after all, she is strange to Mike, and she doesn't have to deliberately abide by the beliefs of this family. This may be why the true great love is actually family affection. The uncertainty of love is far greater than family affection, because it is eager to give and eager to give while hiding its fragile and powerful self-esteem.
In addition to all this, the biggest haze hidden in Mike's heart is nothing else, that is, he ordered his brother Fried to be killed. Killing his brother was a nightmare that Mike couldn't escape in his life. When he fainted due to diabetes, he shouted Fried's name. He actually killed another son of his father and mother, his brother, can he not do this? He may be able, but he can't go against the deeply ingrained family philosophy. The belief in that philosophy is that anyone who harms the family or harms the family’s interests is the enemy of the family and must be eradicated. But the problem is that Fried is a relative of this family. This philosophy is to protect this family, but at the same time it does not allow any individuals to endanger the interests of the family. This is another paradox in Mike’s life. Killing Fried was for the family’s relatives not to be harmed, but this in itself was one of the most important relatives who harmed the family. This kind of desperate paradox did not know what kind of pain Mike had been in.
Mike finally handed it over to Vincent, a next-generation godfather who inherited the same Corleone family philosophy as Mike, and his beginning has meant inheriting all of Mike’s sorrow and pain. Seeing everything thoroughly, Vincent told Mike that everything can be stopped. It means that, in a way that belongs to the Corleone family, stop all this. Mike sighed and said, I have tried my best... I have tried my best, I tried my best to avoid leaving. Up to this point, I can't go away. At this time, Mike has clearly seen this paradox, but it is a pity that Vincent is as young as Mike when he was young. He believed that the Corleone family philosophy could save everything, but he had not yet realized that the Corleone family philosophy It is a paradox in itself, a tragedy. He only begged Mike to give the order, and Mike has already realized that taking charge of the family with the state of mind that he sees through all of this can only make the family decline. He still hasn’t repented, he can’t repent, it’s just that he can’t do anything anymore. There is only one way to repent of this kind, to hand over the entire family to this new Corleone philosophy who also retains the blood of the Corleone family and whose surname is Corleone. Only he can continue to stick to the philosophy of the Corleone family and protect the entire family in his existing philosophy, but that is a tragedy after all, because he will lose everything that Mike has lost for this, and Mike also said to himself. Linguistically speaking, that is a way of no return. However, even if he doesn't return, he still has to go. If he can't go, he must let Vincent go, but he clearly knows that this is a way of no return.
Mike said, I am aiming to get out of the Mafia, I am aiming to get the family out of this predicament, he actually knows exactly what Vincent will say after saying these words, it is the decisive sentence, I don't want to leave, Mike doesn't want to hear That's what Mike wants to hear most. Mike gave all of his life's destiny to this man who also wanted to preserve his family with power. At this time, Connie came over and Mike told Connie that he was powerless. Connie glanced at Vincent with a very firm look, and then said to Mike in a pretentiously relaxed tone, it’s okay, just rest. Everything here is handed over to Vincent. In this pretentious ease, an era belonging to the Corleone family is over, and at the same time, the next era is about to begin. At this time, Vincent said, I am your son, and I obey your command. This sentence, I am your son, actually shows to Mike that Vincent's firm inheritance of the Corleone family philosophy. Mike has made all preparations, looked at Vincent, and said, I want you to give up my daughter, you have chosen this path, and this is your price. The price, yes, if Vincent wants to take over the Corleone family, he has to pay a price, what is the price? It's the price of love! It's love! It's love again! Still love! Vincent will sacrifice his love because he adheres to the philosophy of the Corleone family. All this goes back to what he said at the beginning. Mike and Vincent are destined to be tragic in their lives. The tragedy is nothing but love. Because of a family philosophy, if it is ultimately based on sacrificing love, then this family philosophy must be a tragedy. However, since the old godfather, this fate has become the root of the paradox that the Corleone family will eventually perish in tragedy! If Mike’s death in love was only when he had to stick to his family beliefs, then Vincent’s love could be said to have not started and ended, and this basically indicates that Vincent’s tragedy will be even greater than Mike’s. For thick. The ending of the third film also illustrates this point. Mary's death is not only the end of the tragedy of Mike Corleone's life, but also the beginning of the tragedy of Vincent's life.
To some extent, Mary's death was not accidental, but inevitable. In the first film, the old godfather attended the five major family peace talks organized after Sonny’s death. He once said that I swear by the life of my grandchildren, as long as my youngest son can return safely, Sonny’s death and this I will not blame all the conflicts inside. However, I don't know if Mike will bloodbath the other four family leaders, the old godfather will support it, I think he will.
This was one of the foreshadowings of their philosophical paradox and fate. Later, in the third film, there was another foreshadowing. Mike knelt and prayed at the funeral of the death of Your Excellency Thomas. I swear by the lives of my sons and daughters. I beg to give me another chance to reform and rehabilitate. I will not sin again, but that is not his real plea, because he still wants to wash away the previous sins of the Corleone family and this process It is bound to kill again, that is, to commit another crime, even if he did not order it himself, but when he passed the title of godfather to Vincent, he inherited his sins to Vincent together, and This inheritance can only be realized in Vincent because it still appears in him. Then Mary's death was not an accident, not an accidental manslaughter but an inevitable result.
When Mary died, Mike hugged her. When everyone’s howling and loud cries merged into one piece, Mike was already in a half-silly and half-crazy state. Until the end, when everyone’s grief came to a breath, Kay didn’t notice. Mike’s grief has reached the point of madness, and this extreme grief, the director used a silent expression, this expression is the most incisive expression of Mike’s extreme grief, and at that moment, Mike has realized that there is no more life for him. In any sense, he has already gone to death. At the end of the film, the lonely and helpless old Mike lives his life, which is in sharp contrast to the death of his father and grandson in the joy of family.
Mike recalled before his death that the three most cherished women in his life, except for the old godfather Vito Corleone, are these three women, one is Kay, one is Apolonia, and the last one is His daughter Mary. He wanted to protect his family all his life, and he did indeed do so, but there is something called a paradox in fate. The tragedy of Mike's life is portrayed vividly at the end of the third part. He lost these three. Woman, his faith made him lose all of his life.
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