Once upon a time in America- Very good!

Rating: 8/10 (25 March 2006)

"Once upon a time in America" is one of those movies you remember for a long time after watching. The story is very interesting. It is based on the phenomenon "friendship" presenting the good beginning, the excellent and funny growing and finally the inglorious ending, in the world of political and financial profits.
Its special directing makes it further more complicated. The exchanging of scenes that are not consecutive in time, the going through one scene to another with that special way that only great directors as Sergio Leone know, the starting and ending with the same scene,with spectator's knowledge being the only difference, are some of the reasons I am fascinated! It is a film that makes the spectator use his/her mind. However some chapters move on a very slow rhythm that may become mortal.
I think that the title fits the story. Noodles needs to go some years back, to remember what happened "once upon a time", to realize who is the betrayed and who is the betrayer. "Once upon a time" he had friends, that he doesn't have now.