Henry's wife is good friends with Tommy's and Jimmy's wife. They often go on vacation together and go on dates together.
Of course, the three men had mistresses outside. However, the problem is not that serious. They never need to hide anything. It doesn't matter to let the wife and children know the existence and location of the mistress. It is impossible to be loyal to the family, but you are also destined to be the partner of such a man.
Henry's wife Karen has always enjoyed the life of a gangster wives. Her husband is very capable, charming, and very profitable, so she can show off to her relatives and friends the luxury goods she bought, the decoration of the exotic new house and the most precious stable family relationship, although it only seems stable . When she learned that her husband didn't reunite all night, it was different from playing cards and drinking with the gang, but with his mistress, Feiyinggugou, she went crazy and smashed the things in the house, and forced Henry with a gun in the morning to let him give up his mistress and return to the family . Of course, after being punched and kicked, Karen apologized after a while, and then smoothly accepted the baptism of white powder.
Henry was tight-lipped when he was first jailed, when he should have been fourteen or fifteen years old. Jimmy, who was seven or eight years older than him, congratulated him for the first time. He learned and fulfilled the two basic principles of underworld life: not betraying gang brothers and not admitting criminal activities. Jimmy put his arm around his shoulder, and they walked up to a large group of people who were his buddies, buddies. Jimmy has always been Henry's role model, so Henry never wanted to question or surpass Jimmy in the past. After the German Airline robbery, one ticket person grabbed five or six million. Before the crime, Jimmy had blood on everyone's hands; after the crime, everyone who wanted to take the money from Jimmy that was promised to them earlier died, and so did their wives.
Tommy and the two are also good brothers. Speaking of which, Karen was introduced to Henry by Tommy. Tommy has a surly personality that becomes more pronounced as he ages. In the beginning, he was just a stubborn, stubborn donkey; but later, when he disagreed, he closed the door and killed a mafia. When he disagreed at dinner, he shot the waiter in the foot with a gun. The three of them are just gangsters with some money. Mafia people are something they can never afford, because they have families, they have legitimate industries, and they have the resources of politicians and businessmen. It will be the honor of a lifetime for a gangster to be recommended as a member of the Mafia. Tommy was pure Italian, Jimmy and Henry were bastards, so only Tommy was recommended to join the mafia, but he was killed at the joining ceremony - everyone knows he killed the mafia . Jimmy heard the news and stood by the phone booth crying.
Henry knew in his heart that the gang was always an organization that could only share happiness and not share joys and sorrows. He was in jail halfway through, and when Karen came to visit, he said his brothers and eldest brother Paulie did not support their mother and son as promised. Henry said he'd known it for a long time, saying that Paulie would only help those who worked for him, and jail was useless, despite the fact that they were father and son. The husband and wife began to secretly traffic drugs in the prison in the name of visiting prisoners, and they also became addicted to drugs since then. After being released from prison, the drug trafficking business, which was forced to make a living, became Henry's main business. He widened this road and took Jimmy and Tommy on this road together. When detained by the anti-narcotics police, Henry, who was temporarily freed after paying bail with the money from Karen's mother's sale of the house, went to Paulie to intercede. Paulie warned him early in the morning that Tommy and Jimmy are dangerous people, don't always hang out with them; the drug business is not a human business, drugs will eventually destroy you, don't think I don't know what you're doing, and it's okay to wash it now in time. Of course, Henry promised very well back then. At this point, Paulie ignored him and gave him $3,200. Henry cried, but accepted it gladly. Henry denounced everyone, and everyone went to jail, except he joined the witness protection program and moved to Canada alone, away from his children.
Everyone said that this film is about the dark, dirty and hypocritical underground organization, but I don't think so. Can our life really be any better than a gangster life? Of course, I'm not talking about murder, stealing, robbery, and other illegal activities. Most simply, are the emotional betrayals and brotherly rebellions in our lives less frequent and softer than in gangster life? Is it true that our lives have nothing to do with illegal activities, and we really stay away from a series of vices such as cutting corners, lying, greed for vanity, greed for profit, profit-seeking, eating lazy, and opportunistic? For this reason, the darkness of human nature has nothing to do with gangsters, but when we stare at the gangster career, we stare at ourselves, but refer to others. The viewers do not feel the superiority of Bai Dao's life because of the legality of what they are doing, but feel glad and excited because they don't have to put their head on the waistband of their pants every day and worry about being imprisoned and dying every day. Most of us do not have a stable intimate relationship, and we doubt others every day, our dear ones, and our friends and relatives around us. In other words, we also live in fear of being betrayed, but we don't have to worry about death and loss of personal liberty as the price of betrayal. I can safely say that all the people who criticize the underworld career and comment on this movie have never looked at their own life, because life is like this, no matter the white or the underworld, in this respect, there is no difference.
I love this movie precisely because of this strangeness, this alienation. This is a sense of alienation that belongs to us, and is not passively recognized by our ego - why is the arrival of the next moment so abrupt and cold when life was so pleasant and happy one moment ago. Paulie and Henry are obviously like father and son. After Henry was abandoned by his native family in his early years, Paulie took him over, gave him a job, found a position for him in the union, made money for him, helped his friends, celebrated his wedding, and provided Disgusting words. But the next moment, Paulie will not provide a little help for his life after imprisonment, and will only use $3,200 to send him away when he is in danger. It was obvious that Karen was still with him at the last moment, watching their children and cuddling with each other, but the next moment they faced each other at gunpoint, threatening to kill each other. In the next second, the two resumed a stable relationship, but they only admitted the drug friend relationship after the failed relationship, but in the end Henry wanted to leave Canada, and Karen refused to go with him as his company. All this abruptness has been created as a portrayal of gang life portrayed for the entertainment of the public. The audience can stare recklessly and despise this kind of life without scruples, because the corruption of the moral gang is always worthy of condemnation. But what everyone is staring at, isn't it precisely their own intimacy, their own life? The intimacy in our consciousness is not a real emotional connection between the two, but the product of a purely personal fantasy. First, how we think our partner should behave, how we imagine our friends should react; then, we check. So-called ideographic intimacy is just that: the interpretation of reality conforms to one's fantasies. Intimacy, in this sense, is nothing but one's emotional masturbation. On the contrary, only the tolerance of alienation is the confirmation of the inner meaning of intimacy. Only by accepting all this, whether in life or drama, conflict and strangeness, is a mutual, real relationship.
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