The true story of Sicilian mafioso Tommaso Buscetta who turns informant when a rival crime family decides to exterminate his entire extended family murdering everyone over the age of six.
Almost any time you see someone riding in a car, you know something terrible is going to happen.
I assume the Italian courtroom scenes were accurate since it was an Italian movie, but they were the strangest I've seen. The defendants were locked in cages in the back of the courtroom where they kept shouting abuse at the witnesses who sat behind bulletproof glass. Witnesses could question and insult each other. Defendants sometimes did their own questioning. If it had been an American movie, I would have thought they made it up based entirely on crude Italian stereotypes.
Which was, to some extent, how the scenes set in the United States were done. Buscetta is in the witness protection program in the United States. Those scenes were apparently filmed in Germany, and the street scene did look like it might have been in New England. While shopping for groceries, he stops at the gun counter to buy an assault rifle. Of course, Wal-Mart does sell both guns and groceries, but they have a separate sporting goods section.
Directed by Marco Bellocchio.
Two and a half hours. I got a Starz free trial just to see it.
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