
When looking at Scorsese’s films we can distinguish his feelings towards the violence and the gangster life. When doing a movie Scorsese illustrates us a very crude, gross, brutal violence. He has brains blowing left and right, lots of blood and quite some beatings. Like in “Taxi Driver”, he has Travis go up to Iris’ room shooting everyone and blowing brains, hands and parts of the body every where. By doing this, he shows that violence is not pretty and it should not look like that on films. He lets us see, violence for what it is, a harmful, indecent and unaccepted action. In most Scorsese’s movies he has a character which loves the life but does not like the violence that implies being on this world. At least does not support the violence with out a reasonable reason. An example of this is Charlie from Mean Streets.
Which leads me to say and believe that Martin Scorsese tries his best to portray the life as it is, without showing his believes. I think he is fascinated by the mafia/gangster life, but does not which to become a part of it. He is constantly letting us see what he thinks is amazing an inviting about the life but at the same time reminds us that ones our in is not the priest world, nor the safest. When talking about the genre, I believe he stays true to what he thinks a mob film should look like. When you see a Scorsese’s film the first things that comes to mind is Mafia or gangster. So to my criteria he stays true to the genre while staying true to the life it self.
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