those who mean a good deal of harm. Tom's mother is a representative of the largely innocent population that stands outside the unholy alliance of criminal and moderate, part-time drinker.
The criminals may think of themselves as better than the average American because they believe they are stronger, see themselves as willing to take what they need, and consider the rest of the people to be no more than sheep. In the end. though, it is the criminal who lies dead and the sheep who is left to clean up the mess.
The next era in American history covered by the films under discussion continues the saga of the crime families of America in The Godfather (1972). The film presents a full and detailed picture of a social subgroup in American society, and the plot of the film focuses on the criminality of members of this subgroup. In a broader sense, the story of the Corleone family reflects a number of other forces in American society--the immigrant experience, the maintenance of certain Old World social structures in the New World, and a family organization tha
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