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.