Eye-opening

Rating: 6/10 (4 September 2016)

I found the movie to be a very good reflection of real life in terms of complexity of personalities.
The real-life lessons: don't ever believe someone so easily just because they say so. It it incredible how fast characters in this movie believed the others just because they said so. They believed false characters as for example they believed the actor was the lawyer or the sheikh just because someone said they are. They believed someone had connections to London just because they said they did. They believed someone was telling the truth about an investment opportunity just because they said they knew someone in their neighbourhood. We, in real life also do this every single day. It is quite frightening to see how easily we could be scared, lied, investigated. It reminds you that there are people out there that know this and take advantage of your trust. It is very easy to say to someone I am this and this person. If you do it, they can't easily verify that and if they do it you can't verify that. Another thing, don't touch crime. If you don't touch it you don't leave evidence no matter what you say. An example that actions speak louder than words even when it comes to justice processes (even though you get sentences even for just speaking as we saw). And finally, the small fishes are always the first to be caught and the first to go and sometimes the only ones. And also Richie DiMaso's failed attempt to get on papers and be huge shows that when you get blinded by goal so that you become cruel (blackmailing people into working for you, beating your boss) to achieve it, you get humbly reminded by karma that that is not the way to get it
Character development: amazed. The characters are externally strong all grey not just white or black with the exception of the mayor that came across as so innocent and white that was ready to commit crimes so that his community develops.