The road to perdition directed by Sam Mendes is a 2002 drama, staring Tom Hanks. The period the movie is set in is 1931, where the depression was being experienced by people all around the world. Road to Perdition is about a gangster and his interaction as a family man and as an important member of a mob. Revenge and justice are the key motives for this movie. Through these motives the destruction of innocence and the reality of experience in the underground world unfolds. Also within the movie we see how betrayal influences various relationships to become stronger and how others disintegrate.
History tells us that the time of the great depression was causesd by the fall of the stock market in the United States of America. This caused social and financial hardship for the majority of working-class people. In he Road to Perdition this is relevant because it ties in with how gangsters and mobsters ran things in their communities. The head mobster John Rooney controls a Midwestern......
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