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Road to Perdition

            
            
             Road to Perdition is settled in depression era Chicago. In my eyes this film has two main characters, which in fact have a great deal in common. They never come to notice their resemblance to each other, both having such love and passion for their sons. This passion in the end brings them both to death. Michael O"Sullivan works as a hit man for his surrogate father and boss John Rooney. Rooney has taken in Sullivan and his family acting as Sullivan's father for the past several years. The worlds both Sullivan and Rooney lead; work and family are about to collide separating the good from the bad. .
             Michael O"Sullivan leads a private family life; his two young children know nothing of his mob ties until twelve-year-old son Michael Jr. tags along secretly discovering a brutal murder. Sullivan's mob friend who was with Sullivan at the time of the murder says the boy must die. Sullivan refuses and promises the man the kid will be silent. This is the beginning of Sullivan's change for the better; he knows that he has just put his entire family at risk, mostly his older son. Sullivan lays his life on the line to protect his eldest son's life. .
             After the murder of Sullivan's youngest son Peter, and his wife of more than twelve years Sullivan starts on a journey of revenge with his only surviving son. They leave their home surroundings and gangster family to set out on the open road in a remarkable bonding experience that develops young Michael into a fine young man. After six weeks of father and son partnership, Sullivan breaks down his barricade between he and his son. After diminishing the barrier Sullivan finds in his son a part of him that he lost long ago; his pureness. There is no longer a formal relationship between the man and child, but rather they have reached a comfortable equality.
             John Rooney has been in the disruptive mob business for longer than he can remember. It has made both his soul and heart hard as stone.


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