Man, gangsters are stupid!

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2019)

They tell it well. They did it with GOODFELLAS and they do it again with THE IRISHMAN : they make it painfully clear that gangsters are stupid and if you get people that stick to the law in charge of the law, there's no getting away with breaking the law, since they are just so plain obvious and stupid, trying to bribe their way into every nook, crease, and cranny society has to offer.
What you get to see is what you get to see in many places : a fraternity backed by a sorority of what are essentially complete and utter dumb anarchists that just wear a different uniform than other anarchists, but other than that are really the same, that don't care about anything else other than their own personal gain, whims, and follies.
If there's one thing you don't want to do in this world, for as far as these gangsters are concerned : it's making any kind of sense. They all want to live it up. They all want to live the good life. What they don't get for instance, constantly focusing on making as much money as possible, is that that what they see as the good life - wife, family, food - doesn't actually cost anything. Just learn to cook. It isn't that hard. Life is simple, the only thing you have to do, is keep it that way.
Anyway, the one thing that's left in the middle is why the main character decides to tell his story in the end. I think that in the end, with all his friends deceased, the game is gone, which pushed what life is really about forward, namely his family and his desire to see his daughter again. His main problem being that even when he does tell the story, he feels no remorse, so will she see him again? But that's not what the movie is about. It's about his exploits, endeavors, politics, lack of comprehension, and being a soldier : doing what you're told to do. But what good is a soldier that can't even think for himself?
I've had to change my reviewing ways a bit. First I had to get to a point where you get 9 stars if it's perfectly made, for as far as I can tell, and one more if it resonates with me. I hate gangsters, which is pretty much the same thing as saying that you hate people that just do stupid unlawful , which almost made me knock off a star. This movie definitely kept me watching and left me baffled how these people get away with what they do, because impulsive a.k.a. greedy people manage to get themselves into positions of social responsibility, which they don't feel, since it's all in the game. Okay, so I had to add a star because the (un)social relevance resonated with me.
Loved the CGI, although their eyes seemed to look like they were wearing colored contacts when they made use of it, both to make younger and age? I think they also changed from more atmospheric color and directing to more hard-edged longer lens, bleak colors to kick in the grind of reality for the last bit of the movie, at the end of the story, when the game has come to an end? "Pretty cool."
Anyway, as a throwout-question related to the movie, where do you stand after watching this? Is life about grabbing what you can grab? The game? Or love, health, and employment? Great movie.