{"id":4702,"date":"2007-10-18T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T17:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2007-10-18T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T17:55:53","slug":"road-to-perdition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4702","title":{"rendered":"Road to Perdition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This dark, prohibition era, film is a bit hard to swallow.  By design it is unlike The Untouchables<\/i> where good triumphs over evil.  Human life does not count for much in a Mafia-ruled Midwestern town. The film has a number of technical flaws that disturb the attentive viewer. The most intriguing feature of the film is how the narrative begins and ends. The opening words run: There are many stories about Michael Sullivan. Some say he was a decent man. Some say there was no good in him at all. But I once spent 6 weeks on the road with him, in the winter of 1931. This is our story. <\/i> The final words bring the narrative to a wonderful closure: I saw then that my father’s only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. <\/i><\/p>\n

When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them… he was my father.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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