India, May 22 -- In Martin Scorsese's film based on Edith Wharton's novel, Age of Innocence, close-ups of plates, knives and forks in plush 19th-century New York houses get a lot of play. One of the reasons for the cutlery frames, critics have said, is that society houses operate like ganglands - a terrain Scorsese would have known - where unsaid codes of conduct and honour tie families of wealth, not unlike the Sicilian mob. Here, transgression will not go unpunished; murder, when it happens, will be cold-blooded; dissenters will be watched over; unruly passions neutralised by "armed camps" sitting around a dining table....