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Boardwalk Empire is an Emmy®-winning HBO drama series from Academy Award® nominee/Emmy® Award winner Terence Winter and Academy Award®-winning director Martin Scorsese. The series chronicles the life and times of Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, Atlantic City's czar at a time when Prohibition proved to be a major catalyst in the rise of organized crime in America. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
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Boardwalk Empire (2010)
The era of prohibition and the golden age of escalating organized crime are thoroughly documented in film and television. However, HBO proves that returning to seemingly exhausted material can be very successful if done right. Boardwalk Empire turned out to be one of the most pleasant television surprises in recent years for me. Steve Buscemi is a charismatic boss of a criminal gang, not one-dimensional, but a highly complex human character. Paz de la Huerta is the perfect mafia seductress, and the likable character played by Kelly Macdonald is interestingly torn between two worlds and faced with numerous difficult decisions. You can create a work in a similar environment either in the style of The Untouchables, as a battle between the heroes and villains, or as a comprehensive portrait of society, showcasing the workings of crime in all its forms and levels. Boardwalk Empire is the latter and brilliantly demonstrates how crime was firmly ingrained in the social structure of the United States at that time. You can witness the corrupt practices of politicians, as well as small-time street thieves, prostitutes in brothels, and foot soldiers doing rough work. Here, the characters are not so much positive or negative, but rather people with different interests in varying shades of grey. Overall impression: 95%.
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