The best thing, in my mind anyway, about the movie The Irishman, which I watched last night, was the scene stealing performance of Al Pacino. Incredible, and such a pleasure to watch him at work again. And this is in the context of excellent performances from Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci!
This film offers a stark, somewhat discouraging, though quite real picture of the shady and distasteful goings-on behind our national life and political scene, and of the power and expansive influence of those forces, and is an appropriate reminder that all things are much more complicated than they seem. The full picture is not just that which hangs on the wall, but the shadow and the grime behind the frame as well.
This film offers a stark, somewhat discouraging, though quite real picture of the shady and distasteful goings-on behind our national life and political scene, and of the power and expansive influence of those forces, and is an appropriate reminder that all things are much more complicated than they seem. The full picture is not just that which hangs on the wall, but the shadow and the grime behind the frame as well.
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