Word: mafiosi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money more than some pusher. Sometimes they actively bust heads because they think it works as a deterrent, and sometimes they just ignore everything they see, waiting for the pension 20 years will bring them. Often the job, with its endless contradictions, proves too much. As Ciello points out, Mafiosi never commit suicide, while cops kill themselves in droves...
Ciello-Leuci is a man who feels fully alive only when he is at high risk-when, say, wired for sound he collects evidence from Mafiosi about cops they have suborned. But this movie is a moral, not a criminal, investigation. The people he works for have cases to break, headlines to make, careers at stake. They need to squeeze every drop of usefulness out of him; he needs to defend his honor by refusing to rat on his friends. By the end he has gently been led to the most terrible betrayals of self, friends and family who must...
...Mafiosi call off a summit...