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Rating: 9/10 (16 April 2020)

If there is one link in "godfather" that is related to fate, it is love. In such a man-dominated film, full of killing and yin. Mou, brotherly feelings, family feelings, love this thing seems to be just an optional embellishment. But when you go deep into the godfather's story, you will find that this seemingly insignificant wind and snow is sometimes a decisive link.
Mike is, to some extent, the most similar to his father among several sons. Closed inside, it is difficult to see what he really thinks, whether to his career or love; he is loyal to marriage and does not have an erosive private life like Sonny and Fredo. Many people say that Mike's greatest fate tragedy was the death of Apollo, which led him to marry an inappropriate woman, Kay. But maybe that's what Mario Puzzo is trying to tell us, some truth.
Kay and Mike met when they were students, or when he was in the army, it was not important in time, but what was important was that they met Mike in his green and ideal youth. Mike of that period, returned from World War II, the National Medal, handsome and gentle, always humble and courteous to people. He will spend Christmas with Kay after watching the movie and change his face as soon as he finds Kay's wrong face.
Say, "No, you're Ingrid Bergman. I won't love you more." If he wanted Kay to take pictures with her family at his sister's wedding, even if she was just a new girlfriend, he would say seriously and tenaciously, "Kay, this is my family, not me." I really like him at that time, the kind of fixed eyes for their own future, gentle expression, smiling face. But fate mercilessly went to the assassination, arousing Mike's deep family feelings, and made him go. There's no way back.
He left the United States helplessly and took refuge in his hometown of Sicily. With the godfather's theme song L ove
Theme, Mike walked on the beautiful and primitive Sicilian hillside, when Mike had completed the transformation of his life. He killed his enemy and fled to his hometown. Even though his face was still so handsome, something in his eyes had changed. He no longer has an innocent manner of tenderness. When. When the man who took care of him drove to the hillside to find him and told him not to walk around, he just said calmly, "I want to see the village of Colion and walk." There was no hesitation or temptation. By this time he was no longer the pure college student, and had become a young emperor.
In other words, this passage in Sicily is an important transition period in Mike's life. Before he came, he was a pure young man who suddenly killed his enemies and began to transform; and in Sicily, far from the sinful world, his character had begun to change, but he still had good wishes. And with the death of Apollo, at the end of his exile, Mike returned to New York, and the picture of the plot was depressing black. He found Kay and hoped to marry her, but by this time Mike had completely transformed into a new generation of godfather in his heart, and innocence had long been gone.
Maybe that's what we love about Sicily. Because it's too beautiful, as beautiful as Apollo.-it's pure. Mike was completely fascinated by her at first sight. Some people say that this kind of love is not a deep love, but a visual shock, an impulse. But I think she's the kind of woman who fits Mike during the metamorphosis.