Review of Mean Streets (1973) by Huseyn B — 03 Oct 2012

This tape has caused enthusiasm among critics, welcomed the first thematically significant and stylish cinematic work on 31-year-old Martin Scorsese, though still in the early opuses "Who's That Knocking at My Door" (begun in 1965 and completed in 1968) and "Bertha nicknamed Product wagon "(1972) he surprised unusually expressive art searches. But as a singer "Little Italy" neighborhood in New York, where he grew up in a family Scorsese italoamerikantsev, he declared himself in full voice only in the third film in a row. Petty thieves, thieves, crooks, thugs, big mobsters, drug dealers - they all knew the director from his childhood as lived next door to the "Mean Streets" of the largest cities in America, shaded views of the Statue of Liberty at the entrance to New York harbor.

The story of two friends, John and Charlie Chivello Kappas who are trying to get rid of the influence of the local mafia, Martin Scorsese is an occasion to create a hard, sharp, nervous about customs cinematographic "Wild East" - an urban, diverse and multilingual, like Babylon. Speaking of pain, and sometimes hatred of marginal life, the margins of a prosperous society, director of the film is still a poet in New York. This attitude to the fact he will keep in his subsequent "evil tapes" - "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull," as well as more entertaining - "New York, New York" and "after work.".

Robert De Niro and Xarvi Keitel, Martin Scorsese's favorite actors, who starred for the first time in a duet, brilliantly coped with their roles and made to attract the attention of filmmakers from different countries, and each one of them was in his thirties. For performers such age is already considerable - unlike directors who often only start at the end of twenties own career in film.