Zoomer Critique of “The Godfather”

Go to Sasha Stone’s Instagram page and watch the clip from The White Lotus‘s second season, episode 3:

Bert Di Grasso (played by F. Murray Abraham): “The Godfather is the best American movie ever made.”
Albie Di Grasso (played by Adam DiMarco): “No, it’s not.”
Bert: “No? Why not? I think so.”
Albie: “Well, you would. [Because of] your nostalgia for the salad days of the patriarchy.”
Dominic Di Grasso (played by Michael Imperioli): “They’re undeniably good movies.”
Albie: “The Godfather is a fantasy about a time when men would go out and solve all their problems with violence. And sleep with every woman. And then come home to their wife, and there would not be any questions.”
Bert: “It’s a normal male fantasy.”
Albie: “No. Movies like that socialize men into having that fantasy.”