the story is dark

Georgianna 2022-04-19 09:01:02

The story is dark Goodfellas 3/6/2020

Just watched "The Irishman" last weekend, opened Netflix today and saw "Goodfellas" listed, so I just watched this old gangster movie again. The 1990 movie is about the sixties and seventies when gangsters were rampant.

The movie is pretty dark, and it doesn't have the bleakness of The Irishman's killer in his twilight years to balance out a bit of bloodshed. The male protagonist Henry Hill has longed for the gang since he was a child (probably also due to his father's contributing factors). The original intention is the kind of "brothers on the road" of loyalty. Even a child who knows the rules and works well can be treated and reused equally. There is also the "horror" of the gangster, who can easily get what you want by intimidating and intimidating (Tommy scare Henry "what do you mean I'm funny" where it's really exciting and nervous and makes people sweat, Joe Pesci's ruffian He Ruan played really well), it was the fear and respect of others, and there was a beautiful woman in her arms. The part of the male protagonist who pursues excitement and pursuit of vanity is even more amplified by the participation of drugs. He takes risks and almost falls into madness with his wife, until the desperate betrayal gang enters the witness protection program, which will bring this drama to an end.

And women are all vases and tools, they are the targets of male androgen sexual aggression, and they are helpers when they catch up. The one who doesn't bow his head to the soft (the young boy who delivered the wine) is killed by the law of the jungle. The male protagonist followed the two eldest brothers and hurriedly buried the corpse after killing a made man. Soon after he learned that construction was going to break ground there, he rushed to transfer the corpse. These absurd and dark humorous parts are still better in the movie, and they highlight the sense of fear when the civilized order is lost.

Even watching two gangster films this year is interesting. Think about it, after "The Irishman", all the stories have been told, the actors and directors are old, and the theme of gangster movies will probably become more and more silent like Western movies in the future.

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Extended Reading
  • Jeremie 2022-04-23 07:01:01

    Martin Scorsese's films seem to be like this: technically brilliant, some parts are impeccably perfect, but looking at it as a whole, I don't find the film interesting at all, or even that it Mediocre and boring, "good sentences but no good chapters" is the best way to describe it.

  • Leanna 2022-03-25 09:01:02

    I don't know why this is an epic. In my eyes, it is just a comic-oriented gangster biography, and all kinds of things come and go like daily life. Although the narrative rhythm is quite fast and the plot is not boring, the 145-minute film length is finally overwhelming. It is similar to the Wolf of Wall Street taken by Martin 23 years later, but I feel that the latter is much more powerful. The long shots of the bars and passing through the hall are amazing.

Goodfellas quotes

  • Karen: [narrating] After awhile, it got to be all normal. None of it seemed like crime. It was more like Henry was enterprising, and that he and the guys were making a few bucks hustling, while all the other guys were sitting on their asses, waiting for handouts. Our husbands weren't brain surgeons, they were blue-collar guys. The only way they could make extra money, real extra money, was to go out and cut a few corners.

    [Cuts to Henry and Tommy hijacking a truck]

  • Henry Hill: [narrating] It was revenge for Billy Batts, and a lot of other things. And there was nothing that we could do about it. Batts was a made man, and Tommy wasn't. And we had to sit still and take it. It was among the Italians. It was real greaseball shit. They even shot Tommy in the face so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.