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Exploring a more mundane milieu, it serves as the missing link between us and The Godfather --a gangster movie for a mingier, more cynical era, when even doing good comes with a terrible cost, and where every family tie is a snap of the wrist away from a garrote.
(A recent highlight was the National Enquirer 's astonishingly detailed painting of the poor child's lifeless body, bloodied garrote and all.)