blogpost 6: Mafia on Movies

Action movies are one the most watched genre in the film industry. No one seems to dislike it. There are many movies about the mafia mobsters, some in fictional characters, while some are true-to-life history. On these movies, they have portrayed what the mafia is like and it works. Lets try to look in deeper to the true mafia stories. One is about a contract killer of the mafia. There are many question that can be asked, but we should be careful, because we should not judge the book by its cover, nor judge it otherwise. In this blog, we will look into what the movie is sayin and what the real life mobster portrays. 

According to the article entitled: "The Iceman" Review – Infamous Mafia Hitman Struggles For Work-Life Balance by Gino Orlandini on the website hollywoodlife.com, he asked that is this man is an evil killer or a family man. Looking into this article, a man with a family to feed is a difficult job. In this story, we began to ask; Is this guy really evil? Or is it just a warface so that the enemies that he might face would be afraid of him?  It also paints Kuklinski as averse to killing women or children as a matter of principle – even going out of his way to save a young girl who witnesses him commit a murder. In his story, I saw a man with a good heart. A man pressured, assuming that he has no more job, he dicides to join the mob and work for them as an hitman. 

After looking into that, I found this review article entitled: The Iceman - review, written by Peter Bradshaw on the website theguardian.com, Kuklinski, a guy who runs a porn distribution business, kept secret from his respectable wife, Deborah. But then he is recruited as a chillingly calm assassin by local mobster Roy Demeo, whom he later enrages by going into business with another psychotic murderer and violence enthusiast, nicknamed Mr Freezy. Even though he runs a porn ditribution business, he respects his wife morally good. He is an assasin, but looking in deeper into him, he is a loving and caring family man who just wants a balanced life for his family. A family he loves so much, Kuklinski even mention that he never hurted his childrenn not even once in his life. This is a man who has two sides in his daily life, a man who is soft and jolly to his family, and on the other side, on his job, a mean scary assasin who does his job. His job to kill people was not personal to him, its just business.