Scorsese' Best Movie to Date

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2017)

This is by far Martin Scorsese' best movie to date, certainly his masterpiece. Better than Kundun, and surely better than any stupid gangster movie, yes, stupid gangster crap that has been elevated as if it was art. I'm not criticizing the actors here, nor anything else that has to do with movie-making; only the subject matter stinks. Why should we care about gangsters, old-style mafia-like ones, or even white-collar worse ones? If it is to inform us, then fine, but again, I don't give a damn. Silence screams at you with its imagery and truth. Yes, truth! It's truth that transcends the so-called truth that we are supposedly looking for. What truth? Look around! The truth is out there. No, it's not, when most of us wouldn't even know how to recognize it. It takes artists (only referring to those in cinema here) like Chaplin, Allen, Kubrick, and others, and now, Scorsese, to give us a glimpse of the truth. Many of us are scared of the truth. Yet, as Nietzsche so aptly wrote: We possess art lest we perish of the truth.