'As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster'

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2018)

This quote opens the movie, based on the true story of Henry Hill, who came from an half irish and half italian family that lived in a bad neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in 1955. Since his boyhood he has always been fascinated from the mafia life, a life of power, brightness and murderers. He will find in Pauly Cicero and his organisation the family he always desired, a family of good guys, 'Goodfellas', as they loved to call themselves, but behind that term there is a world full of violence that Scorsese manages to tell us in a masterly way, as the violence grows with the age of the main character, who in the end will have to choose one between his two family. Not only a good movie, as his title may suggest, but a Masterpiece of the gangster movies, Goodfellas is in fact a dramatic story that becomes absolut enterteinement to the audience, without never suounding banal, with a fantastic soundtrack, which can count on great tracks like 'Il cielo in una stanza', an italian song by Mina, and the presence of brilliant actors like Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci (who won an oscar for playing the role of Tommy DeVito) and last but not least Robert De Niro, who needs no words to be described. If you have always consider yourselves good guys, brace yourselves to find out what Goodfellas real means...