Great Provocation

Rating: 9/10 (24 March 2005)

This film is far from perfect but is very intelligent and provoking. The style is quite unrealistic (operistic in some way).
I never thought I could like Leonardo Di Caprio until I saw him acting here.
From my ignorance I can't remember many films about under classes at urban 19th century America what is quite strange. It was also very interesting to see what the roles of religion and politics were (or could have been) those days.
I really love Scorsese's obsessions with religion and I can't think of other American directors making a film like this, I think he is a free soul (or at least he is not with these dull times).
God bless America.