When I just watched the movie, I was very obsessively fantasizing that Aloponia and Mike will stay together for life. When the story reaches the end of the tragedy, we often fantasize about the bifurcation at a certain intersection and imagine a happy ending that has never happened. I dare to make 90% of the ticket package. If she had to go to the end with Mike, the new godfather would never have a lonely ending. Obviously, Mike has never forgotten her in his life. But turned around and thought, even if the Italian girl is not dead, can Mike really avoid this ending? He married Aloponia after meeting Kay. It can be seen that he does not have a specific emotional habit. With Aloponia lying in the middle, wouldn't the hand of Death fall on his shoulders? Or does he have to go to tragedy?
After analyzing Mike's character background, I found that Kay's personality model is fatal to him, that is to say. His fate has long been firmly bound to Kay. Just because he is not a pure Sicilian. He is an Italian immigrant with "American fever".
When Mike was born, vito had already flourished and he grew up in a fertile soil. He is an idealistic alien in the Corleone family of gangster giants. He is unwilling to curl up in the shadows like a rat. He wants to be admired by others and wants to be a righteous American. In life, he joined the army (in fact, he has no such obligation), married Kay, cleaned up the industry, including handing over his children to Kay to raise, all serve this purpose. Kay not only means a worthy partner for mike, but also It is an important sign of his American identity. As long as he is Mike, he will inevitably choose such a kay. In contrast, the handling of the movie is more self-consistent, changing from kay stalker to Mike's active return, which is a more clever choice in terms of emotional logic and tragic beauty.
Kay is just the tip of the story. As a member of the Corleone family, Mike was born in the mud, but he could neither love the mud obediently nor escape. What he can resist is to choose a partner like this: church background, teacher status, pure to cruel, and independent and firm American will. But to the right place, for Kay, an independent woman from a church family, the violence and blood of the gang is against her beliefs. Her will refuses to lead a life of trepidation. Mike who takes over family affairs and her can never have a happy ending.
Mike understand? I think he understands, but he doesn't fully understand it. From the moment when Santino died and the old godfather suffered a stroke, Mike knew that his past, carefree and brilliant life was over. He would walk out of the sun and walk into the shadows forever. He was very clear about his obligations. However, what makes him confused is that he thinks that he can protect his ideals by his own strength, so he can't give up, and still retains a little shadow of the old Japanese officer Mike. He still wants to stand in the light, which is why Vito can die decently but Mike can’t. Vito has woven this dark empire and loves it all from the beginning to the end. When he joined the gang, he was already an adult. He was in a hard life. Learned to reconcile, his life was at the peak of his life through choice, but Mike was not. He was already on the peak when he was a child. He has everything, so he doesn’t care about wealth and power. He wants Going up, he can only seek out spiritual comfort (somewhat similar to those who are successful in charity). When he finds that the gang hinders him, he will change everything. He has worked hard for change all his life, radical and enthusiastic. However, he was born with the blood of the gang, and the gang has evolved into a part of his life. The complete denial of the gang will inevitably lead to the destruction of the individual.
In my opinion, this is the story of an idealist who finally collapsed and fell to the ground. He burned and plunged into the doomed tragedy, and finally burned all his blood alone. He was a martyr who was strangled by tragedy. When he fell Next time, fate will take off his hat in silence for him.
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