The subject of The Irishman – the Italian-American Mafia in America during a period spanning from 1949 to 2000 – may not be immediately relatable for us in Asia. After all, the film is based on real-life characters and events, set in a very specific milieu. But with auteur Martin Scorsese directing a cast of legendary Hollywood veterans that he’s previously worked with, it offers us compelling cinema with great characters.
Scorsese reunites with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, who also starred in two of his previous mobster films, Goodfellas and Casino . The Irishman marks the first time that Scorsese worked with Al Pacino, who himself performed the iconic Mafia character of Michael Corleone in the Godfather trilogy, the second of which also starred De Niro. Between the director and the actors, they have tons of experience portraying mobsters.
The Irishman weaves a narrative of the life of alleged Mafia hitman Frank Sheeran , from the time he starts working for the Bufalino crime family after his WWII service till he ends up in a nursing home as an old man in his eighties. The film has a three-layered structure, each of the interlacing layers zooming in on a particular time period in Frank’s life.
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