GoodFellas (1990)
Country: US
Technical: col 146m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Ray Liotta, Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Synopsis:
The story of Harry Hill, a Mafia hood turned state witness.
Review:
By no means a first-person narrative which does its protagonist any favours or makes excuses for his behaviour, Scorsese's gangster movie apotheosis skirts the frustrated friendship tropes of Mean Streets and goes for a more classical 'Public Enemy' tale of determinism: Hill grows up in that sort of neighbourhood, admires that kind of figure and grows up to become him. Ultimately he gains immunity at the cost of his identity, looking up from an anonymous suburban conformity like the hapless hero of Solaris. The violence is full-blooded as always, Pesci turns in a career-best performance and the storytelling is as meticulous as the mise en scène, which favours single-take tracks and pans across busy setups during the many passages of voiceover narration.
Country: US
Technical: col 146m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Ray Liotta, Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Synopsis:
The story of Harry Hill, a Mafia hood turned state witness.
Review:
By no means a first-person narrative which does its protagonist any favours or makes excuses for his behaviour, Scorsese's gangster movie apotheosis skirts the frustrated friendship tropes of Mean Streets and goes for a more classical 'Public Enemy' tale of determinism: Hill grows up in that sort of neighbourhood, admires that kind of figure and grows up to become him. Ultimately he gains immunity at the cost of his identity, looking up from an anonymous suburban conformity like the hapless hero of Solaris. The violence is full-blooded as always, Pesci turns in a career-best performance and the storytelling is as meticulous as the mise en scène, which favours single-take tracks and pans across busy setups during the many passages of voiceover narration.
Country: US
Technical: col 146m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Ray Liotta, Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Synopsis:
The story of Harry Hill, a Mafia hood turned state witness.
Review:
By no means a first-person narrative which does its protagonist any favours or makes excuses for his behaviour, Scorsese's gangster movie apotheosis skirts the frustrated friendship tropes of Mean Streets and goes for a more classical 'Public Enemy' tale of determinism: Hill grows up in that sort of neighbourhood, admires that kind of figure and grows up to become him. Ultimately he gains immunity at the cost of his identity, looking up from an anonymous suburban conformity like the hapless hero of Solaris. The violence is full-blooded as always, Pesci turns in a career-best performance and the storytelling is as meticulous as the mise en scène, which favours single-take tracks and pans across busy setups during the many passages of voiceover narration.