A good movie always makes people feel the urge to write.
I like Robert De Niro because of "Once Upon a Time in America." The melancholy eyes, frowning brows, inattentive tone, the roughness when doing bad things, and the softness when facing the beloved, only make people feel: This is a real man. After that, I saw many other movies of him and liked them very much, but they were not as good as him in this one. He in this movie is the most charming in my memory.
Unlike the past, De Niro in this movie is a father full of justice. The protagonist of the story, Calogero, is a 9-year-old kid who lives in a neighborhood where Italians gather. He and his friends like to watch the Italian bosses on the street talking and making gestures, and then imitate them. His father, who was a bus driver, didn't like that Calogero was interested in these people, and his mother forbade him to sneak into Italian restaurants. Perhaps it was the children's rebellious psychology, but little Calogero felt that these Italians were more and more powerful. Due to an accident, little Calogero witnessed a murder case, and it was Sonny, the boss of the group of Italians who shot. When the police asked little Calogero to prove who the murderer was after the incident, little Calogero sheltered Sonny out of adoration of "idols".
Sonny noticed that this little boy was special and started calling him C, and wanted to provide his father with a higher-paying job, of course, at the cost of being involved in gang affairs. Naturally, his father did not agree, but little Calogero secretly started running errands in the restaurant to earn money, and even played underground gambling with these Italians. Later, when the money was discovered by his father, his father was furious and said that the money was not clean. He was not allowed to go to the restaurant to run errands secretly. He even slapped him. Little Calogero was very sad because Sonny was actually very good to him, so he still Go secretly to meet this group of people, and so on until he grows up.
Sonny has always encouraged C to go the right way and stay away from his street friends, so that he can go to school and grow up well. But C didn't listen, and stayed very close to those friends. By chance, he met a beautiful black girl on his father's bus and fell in love with her. The two wanted to date, but they fell into trouble because of a misunderstanding before the date. C's Hupengou friends are a group of gangsters who hate blacks. They beat a few blacks who passed by on bicycles for no reason. C tried his best to stop, but couldn't do anything. Coincidentally, among those who were beaten, there happened to be the brother of the black girl. The date fell through and C returned home in frustration and was picked up by his friends. After getting in the car, C found out that the group of friends was preparing to attack the black area, and their car contained alcohol-containing bottles. C didn't say anything, and sat in the car silently, feeling that it didn't matter. When he was halfway through and waiting for the red light, C was dragged off by Sonny, and Sonny also warned the boys to stay away from C. After C left them, followed Sonny back to their restaurant, and learned that the black girl had come to him, he hurried to catch up. The girl explained the misunderstanding, and the two reconciled as before. At this time, C suddenly realized that his companion was still on the way to implement the plan, and the girl's brother might be in danger, and the two hurried over.
C's companion attacked the tavern where the blacks gathered, but his car filled with alcohol was also set on fire by the blacks at the same time. C's four friends were burned beyond recognition, and C left sadly amidst a bunch of blacks cursing. If it weren't for Sonny, I would have died. C rushed back to the restaurant, trying to thank Sonny for his life-saving, but Sonny was accidentally shot. The person who was shot was the son of the victim C who witnessed the homicide that year. Everything is but causal reincarnation.
At Sonny's funeral, C was probably the only one who truly mourned him. Sonny's former subordinates just sat there pretending to be silent. The video ends.
Regarding the role of the C corner, more is to show the American street side of the 1960s through his perspective. Sonny is a complicated boss. On the one hand, he shows the cruelty of a gangster. He wants to kill and fight; but for C, he always has fatherly love, protects him, and encourages him to go the right way. Of course, everything seemed like a threat to C's biological father. He didn't want his son to be subdued by others. He would rather take a dead salary than live a frightened life. C is embarrassed on both sides in the middle. Father kept telling C that the worship of Sonny was too superficial, and people were afraid of him instead of respecting him. And Sonny told C that he couldn't let people not be afraid of him. It was this sense of fear that allowed him to use his fists and strengthen his position to ensure the safety of the people around him. But this kind of life is his own choice, not what C should follow. C seems to understand but not understand. This is a contest between two "fathers". Both men love C in every way. After C helped Sonny make money when he was a child, Sonny gave him one, and he actually asked: That's it? Since then, Sonny has been admiring the little boy and protecting him in every possible way. Sonny showed him the coldness and cruelty of street life, and made him realize that messing around will not end well. Sonny is cold and harsh, but full of wisdom. , If it were not for him, even if he stopped C, one more person would be burned to death. Therefore, C's father said at Sonny's funeral that he had never hated him, and it was because of the protection of his son that they had to forbid their contact. Although Sonny and C are not related by blood, as an elder, C has learned how to be a man.
The one that impressed me the most in the film was that Sonny reversed the car and sent C to the restaurant. He just drove backwards to the restaurant and taught C the trick to recognize women. From this we can see that Sonny is not an ordinary person. But I really can't understand the foreshadowing that the director laid here.
Sometimes I listen to a style of song for a period of time and then change it. As a result, when I heard the same song one day, the feeling in my mind all belonged to that period, but because I was no longer able to be on the scene, there would always be an inexplicable sense of vicissitudes. The same goes for movies. Most of the movies I watched in my early 20s are based on literary and artistic plots, but nowadays, all kinds of horror are the main tastes. Sometimes when I watch a movie in my favorite style a few years ago, the vicissitudes of life suddenly begin to loom. The moment I saw Sonny die yesterday, tears filled my eyes. In fact, the film did not render Sonny's death too tragic, and it passed in a short time, including the funeral. Even Robert De Niro came to mourn and said something, and it felt very blunt, but it was just because of this inadvertently. His indifference highlights the sadness of the world, and Sonny's loneliness, which makes people feel that the song is over and everything is back to the original point. What reminds me is the feeling that the movie brings me, as if I have returned to the years of indulging in movies in my early 20s. Although I am confused, I recall it now, but it is warm.
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