This movie can actually be given a slightly higher score. Adapted from the novel of the same name, it seems to be quite famous. But I haven't read the novel, so I won't discuss the difference between the movie and the novel.
The overall feeling of this movie is "the gang is as deep as the ocean". In the end, Big Ben gave the position of the gang leader to his good brother. In fact, he knows that this position is not easy to sit, and he does not have much desire for this position. Even if he knew that the position could kill his brother, it was everyone's own destiny. Fate cannot stop it. When his brother heard Big Ben hand over power to him, his excitement stopped.
In the beginning, didn't Big Ben's policeman's father also prevent him from being with that mistress, but he couldn't listen to it. In the end, although he was enlightened, he only came to understand it by himself. That's why people are like this: don't hit the south wall and don't look back.
Big Ben's character isn't some kind of madman, so he can't take a shot at the woman who ruined his casino business. That girl had a man of faith after the fall. And Big Ben too, he refused to join the gang at the beginning, but also because of his beliefs. Later joined for revenge. Big Ben finally went to see the mistress who betrayed him and asked her whether she loved him or not. In fact, it is a matter of the other's beliefs. If the other party really loved him at that time, he can forgive the betrayal. Because Daben himself is a person who believes in love. Faith or love, it's about to be said, but people will give everything (rightly or wrongly) for it.
Including the gang boss who was finally killed, his failure was entirely due to a prodigal. But that's his son, what can he do? Just like Da Ben's police father, he finally gave up his professional dignity and morality in order to save Da Ben. These are the powers of love, which can protect or destroy.
This movie is naturally not a masterpiece in a gangster movie, but it is not to the point where you can't watch it.
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