MOVIES : The Godfather

I've never seen this, but everyone raved about it so when I saw it was on the big screen I took advantage of it. And I wasn't dissapointed.
The Godfather is a truely superb film, with magnificent, imaginative direction from Capolla you are drawn into this Mafia family and its political intrigues straight away. It's strange that you have this feeling of 'greatness' from the beginning frame to the last, and in fact that (and it cost me nothing) is the reason I went to see Alexander on Sunday, to see what the opposite feels like.
The progam notes points out some nice bits; the husband that is marrying into the family at the beginning of the film is hardly seen and never talked to. This makes the retribution for his betrayal later on more easily absorbed. During the marriage celebrations we are swapping from the Don and his loyalty dealings in a darkened room to the brightly lit wedding at shorter and shorter intervals, until finally he emerges - bringing the two worlds together.
Definitely a fantastic film.

(The only downer of this film was that the guy next to me got up to have a smoke halfway through and came back reeking!)