about family trees

“Krismus is about family,” we say, hoping to avoid the blood and pain of the birth of Love, and His unrelenting demands upon us. We mumble God’s name in the hope that He won’t notice us, that He won’t call on us to answer His question. ...
http://www.paross.com/wp/?p=67

So much of the Godfather is about family that it's easy to forget that the very definition of family and nationality is thrown into flux by the Americanness of the film. The Corleones may speak Italian and live like Italians in the Old ...
http://foxtrot-echo.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-godfather-anti-semitic.html