Goodfellas/Film Review

Abstract: A 3 page film review on director Martin Scorsese's 1990 film Goodfellas (produced by Irwin Winkler; released by Warner Bros.). This film dramatizes the attraction of a life in organized crime, specifically membership in the Mafia. The film is based on the real-life biography of gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), who aspired to mob membership from early childhood. Henry is attracted by the illusion of glamour, of "being" somebody, as his fellow "wiseguys" give him a feeling of belonging to a family. As this suggests, through Henry's outsider perspective (an outsider, in that he is only half Sicilian), Scorsese succeeds at showing how this violent, dangerous lifestyle can also be alluring and seductive. Bibliography lists 1 sources.

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Catagory: Film & Television

Subcatagory: Music, Film, Television, Theater & Photography

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