Ben
Reid recommended movie of the day! If you are a fan of the gangster
genre, make sure you watch "Mean Streets," otherwise, you ARE a mook.
"Mean Streets" is the film that broke Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro
into the mainstream and into a career defining partnership. Seeing this
film, it is hard to deny that the film has had just as much of an
impact on the gangster genre as "The Godfather." De Niro is more
eccentric than ever, leading the film with his manic behavior. His
character reminds me a lot of John Turturro's in "Miller's Crossing." Is
this film a bigger examination of the crime trap of New York poverty or
of one man's faith? Though not his most refined effort, it easy to see
how "Mean Streets" led Scorsese into his classics through his painting
of conflicted characters and his grimy view of big city life. "It's all
bullshit except the pain. The pain of hell. The burn from a lighted
match increased a million times. Infinite. Now, ya don't fuck around
with the infinite. There's no way you do that. The pain in hell has two
sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in
your heart... your soul, the spiritual side. And ya know... the worst of
the two is the spiritual."
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