![]() ![]() He playfully tosses dice with the boys in a kind of gangster pastoral, in reality gambling with their very lives. ”Įarly in the movie, at a wake in his home for Danny McGovern, a foot soldier he has had killed, Rooney ominously acts the charming father to the Sullivan boys, Michael and Peter, one his son will soon murder, and the other he will personally order a contact on. If his actions weren’t clear enough, he includes the devil in a toast, and late in the film in a conference with Michael below a church tells his younger protege, “there are only murderers in this room,” and “there is only one guarantee, none of us will see heaven. Then there is John Rooney (Paul Newman in his last feature film role) who is the embodiment of Satan in the film, the pitiless head of an Irish crime family. ![]() He understands as much, and wants his son to avoid the same highway, a road with no off ramps. Even though father and son will eventually drive to a place called Perdition to lay low, the story’s title suggests that Michael has for many years been traveling the road to hell. Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks), an Irish mafia heavy, wants more than anything to keep his son from following in his criminal footsteps. The most appealing thing about Road to Perdition is its over-arching theme of redemption. ![]()
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