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Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2004)

Well, I just wanted to remark on the Sicily scenes. They were superb! Coppola could not have painted a better portrait of the community life in Sicily on those days. I feel I can tell better because I live in Malta, a small island just beneath Sicily which till the late 1970s still had a lifestyle almost identical to that of the Sicilians. The attire, the environment (the fields, the terraced walls, the type of plants), the surroundings, the wine bars, the facial characteristics of the people were very much similar to those of the Maltese people and in some places it is still very similar to that. And this culminates in the wedding celebrations.
Finally, this led me to grasp the difference between the convolution of American lifestyle and the simplicity of the Sicilian lifestyle, even though there were some perceptible parallels.