"Mean Streets" laid the foundation of Martin Scorsese's film aesthetics, New York background, anti-social lonely protagonist, tense conflict with the inner devil, and cold violence. The film uses slow motion technology, long shots and frozen images to create a sense of history and documentary, and Robert De Niro also promoted the formation of the "Scoses Style"
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The characters and stories of "Mean Streets" clearly bear the mark of Martin Scorsese's own life. The "Little Italy" area of New York referred to by "Mean Streets" is where he was born and raised, and the protagonist Charlie's introverted character and devotion to God There is also the shadow of Scorsese. "Mean Streets", like many of Scorsese's works such as the movies "Angry Bull" and "Good Guy", has an Italian-American racial complex. The protagonist of the film, Charlie, is a representative of Italian youth. He has a complicated and contradictory psychology, and this lonely and contradictory character image is a typical of Scorsese's works
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"Mean Streets" is a standard Martin Scorsese style work, the streets and lanes of New York's Little Italy district, the American spirit of changing taste, fighting, abuse, guns, drugs, and Robert De Niro. Scorsese's real violent and shocking lens language was shown to the audience for the first time through the film, which is a very beautiful and unconventional
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