Once Upon A Time in America: The Use of the Mirror

Directed by Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in America is a film that is placed as one of the top mobster movies ever assembled. The epic film chronicles the lives and loves of a band of Jewish mobsters from Brooklyn. Beginning with their boyhood in the 1920's, the film covers the story from the point of view of the aging troupe's clever ringleader, Noodles. He recounts the tale of a life filled with brutality, violence, betrayal, and love. Also in Once Upon A Time In America we find trails of this expressive subtlety in the treatment of an element repeated in this Leone's films: the ow…