Yes, that was both vicious and dramatic. Scorsese has plenty of violence in his films, but he does it with style, and with a point to make, not just mindlessly, as do so many others.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.