Road to perdition

===Road to perdition===
 Tushar K Shukla
People ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man and I tell them just one
thing, "he was my father." The movie reminds of the sense of guilt that an
offender of law goes through, not cause of the crimes he has done, but
because of the fear that his children would imbibe/inherit their legacy.
Quite reminiscent of Blow, the same emptiness and nausea. Road to
perdition is poignant élan and beauty, poetry in motion. Seldom has a
crime tale been depicted with such poetic justice. The music seems born
for the scenes; the screenplay flows effortlessly from one tight shot into
the other. Hanks is at his best. The dignified portrayal of a felon is the
best thing that could happen to the modern day cinema. When others are
busy saving the world from Iraq and aliens, Sam Mendes breaks out of the
rut and delivers a classis work of art, a masterpiece in the cinema of
poise set in the post depression era. The camera work is complementary to
the class direction and acting. Newman in another of unforgettable roles.
Some scenes that deserve a special mention are the shoot sequences in the
rain, the silent one towards the end, the character played by Jude law,
the talk Hanks has with the landlady about children, his scene with his
son where he talks about his inclination towards Mike, the scene at the
bar where Mike negotiates his share of the robbed money with Michael, and
of course the climax scene where Michael is happy when Mike tells him,
Dad, I just could not do it.
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