What is Gangs of New York About? In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father ...
One of the most chilling things in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York is a sound. The "chink chink" of a man tapping his glass eyeball - with the blade of a knife. He's underlining his point.