Used to be a street kid

Rating: 9/10 (1 December 2019)

Watching 3 CD movie feel like watching more than a 500 - page book, your heart will say, "how long ah", which has been reluctant to go to touch, "once upon a time in America" is such a movie to me, have already heard its name, early listen to how many people told me that this is a great movie, but I heard that to 4 hours to sew on still hasn't happened to see. Finally, spent an afternoon to see this film, at the same time, because of its beautiful music, it can be said that after listening to this film, this year just passed the second year of my life in my heart unexpectedly also surging an old man like the vicissitudes of life.
My favorite actor, Robert. DE niro's appearance in the film is one of my favorite parts of the movie. His character's name is really funny, "Noodles". Although "nods" sounds nice if it is transliterated as "nuds", it is still a bit funny to think about the original meaning of "Noodles". But the noodle story isn't funny. Like many movies that span a person's life or most of his life, the gangster story is set against a backdrop of juvenile frivolity, middle-aged pride and old age. This is a retrospective movie, the old noodles are touched again and again, so as to recall the past days and the past grievances. Such movies often give people a sense of vicissitudes, especially accompanied by the music of vicissitudes, which makes people easy to lean on the chair and sink into the sofa. What's more, this movie is not like "cinema paradiso" like a period of time to recall after leaving a warm tail, but also let me after watching the heart of a "this is a good movie" after a burst of melancholy.
From the point of view of the story alone, the story of this movie is more conventional but still fascinating. Four hours is not a long time for me, but I am deeply attracted by the fate of noodles and friends. What impresses me most is still the time when noodles and friends were street boys, who were young and frivolous, precocious but somewhat naive, who could set fire to a newsstand without paying protection money, and who, as usual, were fascinated by a girl. There are a lot of deep, evocative details. Article such as face to face can finally get it and kiss an angel Deborah narrative, he chose to follow outside Max's summon, perhaps understandable as a street to stimulate the call of life, in the end, Deborah to noodle shop doors are closed, also seems to be to the door of a door to another life close to him, the noodles has thoroughly took to the streets, onto the gang life. Another child, waiting outside the door with a cake intended to please his "lover", first eats some cream, then succumbing to the temptation to eat the whole cake, and then panicking when the "lover" shows up. The last good thing he did was to touch the stack of banknotes. After that, the young boy "slipped" and the American dream was shattered. Angry noodles revenge "slip" of the child, was put in prison, here, the streets of their young time is over, and seems to be from the moment they also doomed life direction, frivolous and beautiful youth time has to go to, then they are grown up, waiting for their is killing, murky adult story.
The door that had been closed to him as a teenager was an eternal pain in his heart. His vulnerability was here. He seemed to be the backbone of a domineering gang. So, he had been gentle to Deborah when he was about to leave the girl of his dreams in his youth, he even attacked her in despair, and then fell into empty remorse. At that moment, his American dream seemed to be broken. Max is also a film focusing on shaping figure, he had a deep friendship and noodles, but he has been like his name "Max" to maximize their own interests by hook or by crook, he is ambitious, even cheat a friend, his dream seems to be true, but soon disillusioned, even feel alive is a kind of burden, his dream is broken.
Although full of scenes in the movie the bloody scene, full of broken dreams again and again, but the final feud mood seems to be breaking, for in the past, they meet, though not a smile, also forget the boon sorrow, and many of these films, in the end, in a pleasant and vicissitudes of life in the music, images of youth again, let a person deeply touched. In the end, everything calmed down except for the laughter of noodles in the opium den.
It's a deep film, it's not called once upon a time in gangland or once upon a time in noodles but once upon a time in America, which is really very apposite, it's a gangland story set against an American past, and I don't think it has what many people would call an "epic effect," but there's a lot to be said for the choices of the different people in the film. The music of the film is worth mentioning. The music of different styles under different plots adds a lot of color to the film. After watching the film and listening to the original sound of the film, I think of the door of Deborah's shop again. Which door did you miss?