Once Upon a Time in America
by Sergio Leone (1984)
A group of gangsters and their career within organized crime over more than forty years of life, between personal and professional ups and downs.
“𝘕𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴?” “𝘐 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺.” (𝐅𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐞 & 𝐍𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬)
The Eyes of Noodles.
Noodles’ gaze is always clouded with sadness, a kind of continuous suffering from which there is no cure, something that crystallizes over the years. And it stays with him.
His eyes mark time with the steady rhythm of blinking, until it becomes a living element, a companion whose physical presence is almost felt.
From small-time delinquent to an established gangster, from mud to glory, until the utmost solitude.
From the slums of Manhattan to the high circles of a New York that survives through Prohibition.
And those eyes are always there, aging with every small nuance, emphasizing every good deed and every despicable act in the life of a man who cannot keep up with the present.
A man who, little by little, sees everything collapsing around him.
Noodles’ eyes are joy, pain, triumphs, and defeats; they are light and darkness, truth and lies.
They are man and his contradictions.
They are Cinema.
When acting becomes the embodiment of a character and cinema becomes art, there’s little to argue about.
For *Once Upon a Time in America*, you could grab a dictionary and search for all the synonyms of the word “masterpiece” to fill pages upon pages of praise and glory.
Or, more simply, we can tip our hats, bow, kiss the hands, and say:
THANK YOU, Sergio Leone.
Once Upon a Time in America, a film you absolutely cannot miss, a gem in your movie collection.
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