A group of smelly "rats"

Leopold 2022-03-21 09:01:02

For a long time, Martin Scorsese, "Infernal Affairs", "The Irishman", "Wolf of Wall Street", and "Bounded Island" are all from the lens of this "sociologist". Martin Scorsese filming style of filming, I still can’t help it. To understand the camera jumps and occasionally there are some inexplicable shots. I temporarily understand it as “junk shots” that seem to be irrelevant but have hidden clues. The Italian mafia in this movie speaks dirty words, burns, kills, and loots, but I can see it. There are more incomprehensible gang rules behind the nasty things I have seen. The last second I am still joking with you. The next second you will die from the gun. The character creation of the movie is also very delicate. Everyone has everything. The personal story of each person will also be told through the protagonist’s voice-over. The overall narrative of the film is also expressed in the first-person form through the protagonist’s voice-over. There are many movies in this form. Forrest Gump is the first use. One-person explanations are used to describe the story. Two-thirds of the plot of the movie is to explain the protagonist’s fortune and wealth, and various criminal actions are also taken in a stroke. However, the director focuses on explaining the psychological process of everyone after each action. This is not the same as other gangster movies. There are also two very classic long shots in this movie to explain the location. The characters use long shots to describe the protagonist's peak period. Everyone treats him respectfully. To the last third of the movie, the protagonist turns to the protagonist because of drug trafficking. Don’t betray the "good brother" who has been with him day and night. The reason for betraying is also that his "good brother" wants to kill the emperor and a courtier. This is the unspoken rule of the mafia. If you violate any rules, you are going to die. The mouse also reflects the inner essence of the protagonist. For profit, he can betray anyone, including his own family. Therefore, no one in the movie is a "good guy". They are just a bastard who lives in the moment. Is it really worth the "glorious years" of the wind and rain in exchange for the fear of old age?

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Extended Reading
  • Milton 2022-03-25 09:01:02

    "The practical significance of this story is that their struggle will never be recognized, and their fate has only one ending from the beginning to the end: being abandoned. The meaning of the myth is that the ending Henry escaped this fate, and the method was his The rules learned in the sinister arena: there are no rules, no morality."

  • Andrew 2022-03-23 09:01:02

    Look at the Chinese dubbed version. . . The noisy sound made me watch it all at once, but it was Martin's gangster feeling, and I liked it.

Goodfellas quotes

  • Henry Hill: [Narrating] These are the guys Jimmy put together for what turned out to be the biggest heist in American history: the Lufthansa heist. Tommy and Carbone were going to grab the outside guard and make him get us in the front door, Frenchy and Joe Buddha had to round up the workers, Johnny Roastbeef had to keep them all tied up and away from the alarm, even Stacks Edwards got in on it, all he was supposed to do was steal the panel truck and afterwards compact it with a friend of ours in New Jersey. Only Morrie was driving us nuts - just because he set this up, he felt he could bust Jimmy's balls for an advance on the money we were going to steal. He didn't mean anything by it; it was just the way he was.

  • Jimmy Conway: [referring to Henry and Karen] She'll never divorce him. She'll kill him but she won't divorce him.