Excuse the title, which is a parody of "life is a highway" by Tom Cochrane. However, the title is relevant to The Godfather.
Michael Corleone has been portrayed as the hero of the story. He has followed the steps of Joseph Campbell's hero's journey, and when he kills Sollozzo and Captain McCluske, he is "Crossing The Threshold" (Campbell). The class has been paying attention to camera angles, and the colour orange throughout the movie, but when Michael kills Sollozzo and McCluske, the sound effects are key.
When Michael finds the gun in the bathroom, and is about to leave the bathroom, he looks at the mirror, and looks as though he might not kill Sollozzo and McCluske after all. He has a reflective look on his face. While this is happening, a train sound effect is playing, and it is crescendo-ing It was debatable at first, whether it was important, but the train sound effect plays again when Michael actually kills the Turk and the captain. As the class reflected on this, we concluded that when Michael made the kill, he had chosen a path for his life that he can not get away from, kind of like how one cannot turn around on a train track. He had chosen the path as a Mafia man, and that would be his life for the rest of his life.
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