It is difficult to have a movie like "Once Upon a Time in America" to make people have a sense of reading the vicissitudes of life, dare not touch it again, and sketch out three different era group portraits and landscapes in the United States in four hours, which is a calm and delicate life, which makes people sigh.
America's Past
Leon directed his work, which is even more precious over time. Whether it is the scene scheduling or the atmospheric vicissitudes of the soundtrack, or the design of the two-line story interweaving is very first-class, the ultimate image flows like water under the slow and orderly rhythm, and all the memories of the past are restored and brought to life as much as possible.
The storyline of this movie does not want to be repeated, but there is still a picture that often pops up in my mind, the storage room full of flour bags, a lazy song floating out of the record player, the sun pouring in from the skylight, in the powder fog, the young girl Deborah dancing like a ghost, I have seen countless movies, but never in the case of unprepared, so amazing that I can't move, I think the teenager Goodles outside the hole has also become a deep bondage in his life because of this glance.
At that moment, time seemed to slow down and solidify into an eternal classic; 14-year-old girl Jennifer Connery made the world move.
4 hours from the hot-blooded youth to the martyr's twilight years, the long years are like a world away, and different life trajectories are intertwined with the betrayal and depth of love and righteousness. Robert De Niro's last meaningful laugh made everything settle down, it was really like a dream, and the past was like smoke!
Finally, Ps: I especially like a line in the movie: When I'm tired of everything, I think of you, and I think of you living somewhere in the world, existing, and I'm willing to put up with everything, and your presence is important to me.