This movie was extremely hard for me to get into. It seemed more like a mob movie then a broken union movie. I could tell that Terry was trying to continue to be a good man, and he was being kept down because his brother Charley was working for Johnny. Then when Terry met Edie, he knew he had to change the way he was going if he wanted to be with her.
It did hit me by surprise when I found out that Charley had Terry throw a fight, to help Johnny win a bet. To do that to your own brother, who could have had lots of success, and not have to work on the docks or for people like Charley was. Yes maybe Charley would have been killed by Johnny, and his crew if he had not done that, but he ended up dead in the end anyway, because he could not kill his own brother.
This movie was really slow, compared to what I like to see in a movie, but I understand the concept of what Elia was trying to portray in the movie, that if your willing to stand up together to take back you life and work, that you will succeed in doing this.
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