Just watched this for the first time
Why is it so universally touted? Half the movie is just random, meaningless scenes.
Most of the dialogue sounds like improv which makes the characters come of as erratic and constantly talking over each other.
On top of it all the audio mix is terrible.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:35:35 PM
No.212066600
>>212066435 (OP)
this was Scorsese imitating his master Cassavetes so of course it's a bunch of characters walking around saying whatever they want made on a shoestring budget
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:38:33 PM
No.212066711
>>212066435 (OP)
De Niro's character annoyed the fuck outta me but maybe because I've had shitty friends like that.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:39:10 PM
No.212066733
>"You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit, and you know it."
>Harvey Keitel violently wakes up as sirens blast outside his window
>he looks at himself in the mirror
>stops
>goes back to bed
>PAM PAM PAM PAM
>PAM PAM PAM PAM
>THE NIGHT WE MET I KNEW I NEEDED YOU SO
>a small projector shows us what seems to be family videos of him, they're cozy
>AND IF I HAD THE CHANGE I'D NEVER LET YOU GO
>SO WON'T YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME?
>I'LL MAKE YOU SO PROUD OF ME
>warm, nostalgic footage is cut by red sirens in the night
>WE'LL MAKE 'EM TURN THEIR HEADS EVERY PLACE WE GO
>quickly now, it all builds up as it cuts between the different footage
>SO WON'T YOU PLEASE
>pic related
>BE MY LITTLE BABY (MY ONE AND ONLY BABY)
if you didn't get it right then and there, there's nothing I can do, man.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:41:12 PM
No.212066817
>>212066435 (OP)
You gotta have someone in your family that's like De Niro for you to really "get it". It's about family and sticking up for that faggot that can't stop getting into trouble 'cause you love him. It's about trying to be catholic. It's about violence in modern cities and how quickly we can discover it. It's fucking Mean Streets man I dunno
