Top 3 Martin Scorsese movies

Si Tim Burton he finds his fetish actor in Johnny Deep, Scorsese he has Leonardo DiCaprio as the apple of his eye to stage the contrasts of his ambivalent characters like no other could. A tandem Scorsese DiCaprio that always augurs unforgettable movies.

The Scorsese touch, the most differentiating aspect of this director, is that rapid descent into the underworld of the immoral. A nosedive from appearances, where even religion is configured as the cover, to unfathomable hells of our days. The depth of Scorsese's characters takes us into the structural essences of the underworld or madness, in unleashed obsessions.

Violence capable of establishing itself as a vital foundation but skillfully camouflaged among everyday life. Maximum tension from the intuition that at any moment everything can break out like a hurricane. Decadence corrupting values ​​but capable of being internalized as the lesser evil or Machiavellian justice. Sometimes the final result is a positive reading, in the sense that this desire for perdition is never a solution to any problem that besets such disparate characters and such variable circumstances.

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There is a scene that gives goosebumps. On the one hand, you laugh, on the other you see an ominous vision of the big offices where they decide where the money goes and, therefore, how the world moves. This is the moment in which the general director and the rest of the senior officials of the investment company debate in a plenary session how to take the dwarfs who will shoot at the target at the next party of excesses of all kinds.

A strange affectation with which each one exposes his plan to get dwarves to throw against the target. A delusional approach that brings us closer, from the distorting mirror of the scene, to the idea of ​​a gang of insane gamblers and speculators deciding on the social future with their investments and their bets ...

It is just a detail. The rest of the film is a fast-paced adventure to the top of Wall Street. As the money comes in, DiCaprio and his companions grow darker and indulge in all kinds of vices. Chemical and sexual excesses and of course the stain that spreads to make their lives that void under their feet that suddenly appears to cause the fall.

Shutter Island

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Another fascinating film in which DiCaprio reaches levels of tragicomic interpretation with seismic repercussions for the soul. The investigation entrusted to Edward Daniels (DiCaprio) takes him to a psychiatric hospital where a woman has disappeared under strange circumstances. Among the final scenes Edward points to an incredibly disturbing vision of madness. Reality and fiction as spaces in which to live as is most convenient to survive the misfortunes that may occur. The mere fact of inhabiting our world dependent on entire subjectivity imbues us with that intention to reveal that nothing is more true than what we end up imagining.

A terrifying scenery with the location of the psychiatric hospital between gorges and cliffs that point to the steep situations that the protagonists of this story have to live through. A magnetic investigation around the lost woman that leads us to a dreamlike notion that seeks some kind of psychic purification. More of a dark setting, stormy in terms of climate and at the same time distressing as the few gaps of light open up to point to the truth that was never sought in the investigation.

Taxi Driver

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There was a time when Robert De Niro characterized that duality that Scorsese so enjoys to awaken in us an almost existential tension. A friendly face that turned dark without the need for any other effects than the turn in good old Niro's gaze.

There is some maddening tension in empathy with the psycho on duty. Because maybe the idea of ​​Scorsese in this movie is that, resembling the insane. But there is also an idea that points to possible reconciliations with the world whenever a goal can be set to save from burning.

Iris, a prostituted girl, is Travis Bickle's (De Niro) only anchor for not giving himself completely to the approach of a world that owes him everything. As a war veteran, Travis seeks to overcome his traumas, which could only lead to self-destruction, living in the shadows of New York from his taxi. Only she appears as a target towards stolen purity and innocence. Travis knows himself lost but Iris's youth convinces him that she might have a chance.

The antihero part of Travis is easily assumed as a popular confrontation with politics. The hero part appears despite his crimes in defense of Iris. The sum is that character on the tightrope of morality, able to fixate on time as an emblem between the anti-system and the righteous.

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