To be sure, there’s something about The Irishman that makes it feel like it’s the movie Martin Scorsese was always working toward.
It follows a member of organized crime, a particularly popular subject of Scorsese movies, and tells us an entire life story.
It digs deep not only into the motivations and the actions of Frank Sheeran, but into the consequences, and the guilt that can come from such actions.
As Scorsese recently told Variety, his desire to explore these greater questions, themes that come with mortality, was exactly the main reason he wanted to make the movie in the first place.