The films (and the book) lack realism, in the quality that Giovanni Verga would have had heaps to borrow. What I mean is that they - purposefully - did not depi

The films (and the book) lack realism, in the quality that Giovanni Verga would have had heaps to borrow. What I mean is that they - purposefully - did not depict all the horrific preying happening within italoamerican communities and show a romantic idea of the mobsters somehow strictly obeying a moral code, like knights.