De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci transform “The Irishman” into a melancholy reflection on the end of a myth

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The consciousness of defeat appears in the film but this work by Martin Scorsese is an extraordinary fresco of an entire generation – by Paolo Mereghetti /CorriereTV

«The Irishman», the Irish man: the new film by Martin Scorsese with Robert De Niro (Frank Sheeran), Joe Pesci (Russ Bufalino) and Al Pacino (Jimmy Hoffa). The film might look a bit like “Goodfellas”, those stories that Scorsese told in the ’70s and’ 80s but the difference is this kind of “dark spirit of death” that hangs over everyone. There is no longer the exalted romanticism of the characters, there is rather the consciousness of defeat. A whole series of things that transform the film into an extraordinary fresco of how a generation has ended up taking the paths that have led her to the point where she will be left alone. Scorsese is very good at telling these things, jumping from the fifties to the seventies, thanks also to the tricks of the light magic industry that rejuvenates the protagonists. But the film has its strength above all in this kind of resignation, melancholy, a sense of defeat and above all of darkening death.

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