Scorsese's Ideology

I think that M. Scorsese presents in the movies Mean Street, Casino and Goodfellas what he thinks about mafia style of life. In this movie is very clear that the purpose of Scorsese is to give to the audience a portray of the gangster "world". In all these three movies we can see first the benefits and glamour that being part of the mafia gives. Then he presents us how this world works when things go bad. There is no friends, no loyalty,no benefits and no glamour. There is a lot of violence, crimes and no compassion for anybody. I think that Scorsese make the viewer very clear the statement that although in first place it looks very nice and very easy, at the end it have a lot of consequences.

Goodfellas...

The movie of Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas is a great example of the crime/mafia genre. In this movie we can see the formation, development and end of a mafia gangster, Henry Hill, and all the transformation (physical and psychological) he suffers meanwhile. This movie is amazing because we can almost see the entire life of this man who since he was a kid wished to become a member of the mafia. In this movie, as the genre description says, we can see a mafia gang that operates outside the law (specifically bribing the police, etc), stealing and murdering. I think that Scorsese in this movie achieved a deeper representation of the mafia world than in Mean Streets. In this movie, Goodfellas, Scorsese presents the good and the bad of being a gangster, the benefits, but also all the sacrifices and all the anti moral acts that a man have to do to form part of it. I like this movie because in a beginning he presents it as the easy way to get the best, good cars, a lot of money, respect, and a high position in society. Then he presents the moral disintegration of his main character, product of that same “easy” style of life. I think that Scorsese let very clear the meaning that although maybe it looks like very easy and glamorous at the beginning, at the end crime, mafia, violence, steal, etc, let nothing to the people.

Meaning in Taxi Driver

In the movie Taxi Driver we can find more than one meaning through the movie. I think that one of them is criticism to war. The character of Travis, played by Robert De Niro, is a Vietnam War veteran. He also is a lonely and depressed man who fear the scorn from the society and suffers of chronic insomnia. I think about the criticism of war because we know about this life style of Travis after his experience in war, and it is a trashy, sad, and poor style of life.
Other meanings of this movie are about racism, violence, prostitution and society moral decay. The character of Travis began to feel worry about all this forgotten side of society, and he began to take action in order “to make a difference”. With this character and his part of the movie we can see a clear meaning about all this society problems, problems that, as we can also see in the movie, politicians says to be looking for solutions but at the end they are just looking for votes. So trough Travis, Scorsese let a clear meaning about this.