Week 1 Connections- Denitza

Big Brother and the five mafia families.
To me it seems like out of the 5 families, the Corleone family is the best at predicting and acting on things. Yet this could be a limitation to my perspective of the film because I am not able to view the thoughts and predictions of the other 4 mafia families.
Big Brother, in 1984, was made out of a group of people that basically controlled what was happening with the people in their community. In the Godfather, the 5 mafia families are the little group(s) of people that make their community. In both stories the groups make their community worse by doing bad things (Big Brother: elimination of humans. Godfather: killing people in their way to success). Later on, in both stories, the groups cover up what they have done so that the public and the family do not know what exactly happened- Big Brother: making up stories about people and how they died. Godfather: because we have a limited omnicient point of view and we can only see what Vito Corleone has, we can say that in the Godfather they can hide what they have done by having control over the newspaper writers and public announcers. As for the family they have to lie, only for their protection and safety.