Living in the Gangsta's paradise...

Rating: 8/10 (24 September 2007)

Henry Hill : He is a kind of child who is inclined to disorder. So by the effect of surrondings he attended to a mafia. He was introduced with James Conway and Tommy DeVito. Before he got larger benefits with them, he had been directly working for Paul Cicero who is already a friend of Paul Cicero. I think Henry Hill ask himself that if I wasn't a gangster, what would I become? There is no answer for this question and so Henry found a way out to realize his dreams. Like most of the people who has got money and fame afterwards did, it isn't easy to get used to this kind of life. He came to the divorcing point and even he jailed after a fact that trio beated a man whose sister works in Federal Bureau. The time goes and Tommy is killed by the men of a killed mafia leader. After that the whole flow of facts change and Paul, Henry and Tommy's friendships are destroyed so that Henry squeals them to the police.
Script and direction is upper-mediate. Actors and their performance are not needed to say lot of words. I especially admired Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito who doesn't grudge his bullets from nobody. Even if he is simply ridiculed by someone, he shoots him and he draw a cruel man image. On the contrary, Henry and Jimmy uses their brains more than the bullets. The trio reflects the behaviours of a classic mafia group. The most fascinating scene is that when digging up a corpse which is buried six month before, the words Tommy said to Henry is "My mom is preparing sausage and pepper for us".
Between the it's similars, Goodfellas could be a good example upon explaining for mafia formation. But Goodfellas never could be a "Godfather".