MYST Goodfellas

Goodfellas

For my MYST I watched the movie Goodfellas. This movie is easily one of my favorites as it takes you through the life of Henry Hill, a mobster in New York City. The movie begins in the 1940s when Henry is just a teenager and takes you through the next 30 years of his life. Henry Hill begins working with the mob when he is just a kid. When he gets caught selling cigarettes, he is taught the greatest lesson from his boss and mentor, Jimmy Conaway, "never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut."

The film starts out foreshadowing an event later in the movie. A made man, Bats, was kidnapped by Henry and his friends Jimmy and Tommy. The first scene in the movie shows them opening the trunk and Tommy then stabs Bats to death with a kitchen knife. The film then goes back to a young Henry Hill and the violence goes down dramatically. But as the film progresses, Scorsese uses more and more violence and killings to show the ruthlessness and brutality that is in the mob during the 60s and 70s. The film is also very good with its soundtrack. It plays music from certain decades so you get a better feel for the year because of the amount of time this film takes place over.

Goodfellas starts out by showing the glamour and excitement of life in the mafia. Henry even makes jokes about people who work for a living. When he betrays the crime family at the end, he is still unable to say anything wrong with mob life and still is against normal life. This movie is also based on a true story and a book. I give this film a 10/10.