The Irishman is a drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The film is based on Charles Brant's novel "I Heard You've Brushed the House" and focuses on the life story of the gangster killer "The Irishman". The original novel title, "I Heard You've Brushed the House," is a "black phrase" that alludes to the blood spattered on the walls and floors while a professional killer is on a mission. The film won the Supporting Actor Award at the Lywood Film Awards (HFA) in November 2019, and on November 26, 2019, it was selected as one of the top ten films of 2019 by Time Magazine.
The film tells the story of organized crime in postwar America through the perspective of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran. Frank Sheeran is a liar and killer who once worked with some of the most notorious figures of the 20th century. Spanning decades, the film chronicles one of the largest unsolved cases in U.S. history, the disappearance of legendary union leader Jimmy Hoffa, and takes a grand story journey that shows the hidden passages of organized crime: its inner workings, its enemies, and its involvement with mainstream politics.
This is a film that can only be made by a real old man, slowly narrating the scenery of youth, more than three hours of time allowing the audience to gradually immerse themselves in it, and the last hour is full of too much heaviness and helplessness, betrayal between friends, family problems, time to hide, asked "they are all dead, what do you have to hide" after no feelings, no tears, no regrets, consumed by time, and finally the only thing is the figure of the old man in the crack of the door, just like the final ending of "The Godfather", Loneliness and illness.