"Road to perdition" is the most tender gangster movie I've ever seen. (I don’t know much about gangster films) I think the most touching thing about this film is that it truly reflects the complex human nature. The camera penetrates into the heart of each character, and each character is very full. (The same is true for both of Sam Mendes’ films.) Little Mack will be angry because he thinks his own mistakes led to the murder of his mother and brother; Sullivan is a killer but tenderhearted to his wife and children; Rooney is a mob boss but has flesh and blood; Gnar's paranoia, Lance's snobbery, Harlan's morbidity, etc... This film echoes the beginning and end of "American Beauty" and uses voiceover effects to make the theme more vivid. What I saw in this film was thinking about redemption. In the United States in 1931, in the words of the film, during this period, some people were drinking and having fun, and some people were sleeping on the streets. But under these social contradictions and crises, there are undercurrents of various gangs. Hiring killers, dealing in the dark, licking blood at gunpoint, doing things that are not part of the day. Sullivan, who was caught in this quagmire, did not want these to affect his family members living in normal circles, so he kept acting behind his back until everything was discovered by Mike's curiosity, and the film had its first huge turning point. Then the plot enters the escape route mentioned in the title. In the short six weeks of this escape, Little Mike continued to grow, using his vision to lead the audience into black and white and generate thinking. At the end of the film, as Sullivan wished, little Mike did not shoot. After his death, he was able to walk into heaven and truly returned to a normal life, a real paradise. "Road to perdition", the road to destruction, I would like to understand that it was the destruction of people like Sullivan and Rooney, and in exchange for the rebirth of countless little Mikes, countless little Mikes were redeemed. Looking at the comments, some people say that the use of such a sensational bgm in a gangster film is purely funny, but I think it is the icing on the cake, adapting to the characters and plots in the film. The grass and houses at the end of the film are not very saturated, but they are consistent with the tone of the previous pictures and are not obtrusive, allowing people to quietly follow the protagonist's monologue to think. "When people ask me if the Michael Sullivan is a good man, I'll give the same answer, I just tell them, he's my father.
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