GOOD FELLAS
After viewing Martin Scorsese's new film, "GoodFellas," the characters and their story lingered with me for two days. The film's mood of guilt and regret, of hasty decisions leading to wasted lifetimes, of loyalty turned to betrayal, and furtive nostalgia for bad times that shouldn't be missed but were, refused to leave me.
This film stands out from most others, even great ones, as it does not evaporate like mist once you leave the theater. Instead, it leaves behind memories that stick with you. It is a masterpiece from America's finest filmmaker at the peak of his form. While "The Godfather" is a classic about organized crime, "GoodFellas" is the greatest film ever made on this topic, and they are not comparable.
Scheduled to open on September 21st in Chicago, "GoodFellas" is a memoir of life in the Mafia, narrated in the first person by Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), an Irish-Italian kid whose sole ambition since his teenage years was to become a Mafioso. The Jewish girl Karen (Lorraine Bracco), who married him, also narrates some parts. She discovered that her entire social life was suddenly inside the Mafia, and eventually, she came to believe that the values of the Mafia were normal. She was even proud of her husband for having the energy and daring to go out and steal for a living, instead of lying around the house all day.
The real Henry Hill disappeared into the anonymity of the federal government's witness protection program, and he told everything he knew about the mob to the reporter Nicholas Pileggi over four years. Pileggi and Scorsese distilled those memories into a fictional story that sometimes feels like a documentary. It contains so much information and feeling about the Mafia that it creates the same claustrophobic feeling that Hill's wife talks about: the feeling that the mob world is the real world.
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