The ending time lapse.

Rating: 8/10 (28 August 2018)

The thing that was most remarkable to me about this movie is oddly the final shot. I don't really have much to say about the rest of it. Daniel Day-Lewis didn't impress me that much. I know people love him, but I don't, sorry. It definitely wasn't DiCaprio's best showing, and Scorsese didn't bring his A-game to this one either. Not to say that it's a bad movie, but it's forgettable for the most part. However, the time-lapse at the end kind of gave me an appreciation for the entire movie up to that point. It gave all of the violence and sacrifice of the movie meaning, and showed that it all paved the way for the descendants of the Irish to have a future in America. I'm not sure of my exact heritage, but I know that I'm American born with a decent amount of Irish blood in me, and I think that fact in itself is proof that the fight to be part of the American dream was achieved long ago by somebody. Whether I'll actually go back and watch this movie again is questionable. Things got a little bogged down and political for my taste, though there was a decent theme of what being an American means in it that even has relevance to immigration today. But this is the only movie I've seen where the last shot has changed my opinion of the movie as a whole.