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The Irishman

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I've been out to the cinema very little this year, despite a new Everyman opening up near me, and in general every inclination to see several good ones which came and went. The Irishman really wouldn't have been on my list, not that I thought it'd be bad, certainly not, but the thought, "Not another Martin Scorsese gangster epic??" Anyway, I went along with this choice, some other friends had recommended it and, what the hell. Some context for my half heartedness: no matter how honest these mafia films are about these characters and the world they inhabit, I feel the very fact that they are so well made gives them undue glamour. A case in point is Scorsese's  Goodfellas which I thought was a truly great piece of cinema, but which still featured somewhat sympathetic characters and made them look cool. I can't think that about The Irishman . With this film, Scorsese has stripped away all of the false glamour which might have attached to the mafia li