Re. Goodfellas

Rating: Null/10 (16 October 2005)

One of the main points of Goodfellas is the fact that Henry and Jimmy were not members of any family.Henry really wanted to be a made man but knew he couldn't be.I feel this is why Scorsese made the film so un moralistic. If the film was about made men then all the sentimentality would have appeared, all the fake loyalty and what goes with it. In the long run Henry Hill was a fool who found out the hard way that there is no real loyalty within a mafia family and its associates. I've heard that these days he could well have become a made man. Is this true. In oen part of the film he explains that to become a made member you must be able to trace both parents back to the homeland(Italy)but I read somewhere that now you only have to trace one.