Remarkable story..

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2015)

I must start by saying that "Goodfellas" is one of the greatest movies ever made, being inspired from real events.
The movie represents a display of Martin Scorsese's ingenuity in directing and writing at its highest degree. Scorsese delicately mixes deception, greed, love and the need for power into one fantastic story, at the center of which stands the life as a mobster and all its inherent tribulations.
The cast is as good as they come, but the most impressive is Joe Pesci , whose transcendent and quite short performance is the heart of the movie, beating increasingly until his very end. His character's loyalty, dark humor, impulsiveness, irascibility and complete disregard of society's laws compose, more or less, the typical " wise guy" of that time. The most memorable scene which masterfully displays some of these traits is the one in the bar, on poker's night, when he feels humiliated by his friends' intense laughter after being cursed by the waiter, Spider, and his instinctive reaction is to kill him, thinking that this will remove the temporary stain on his cultivated reputation.
The masterpiece illustrates in a most special way the methods gangsters unscrupulously use to make a living (stealing, killing, etc.), their hypocrisy towards each other, promoting love and tolerance when some of them would betray the others in a blink, and their inexorable addiction to, in a wider sense, more.
"Goodfellas" remains one of the most remarkable movies I have ever seen.