Martins Scorsese Ideology expressed throughout his films

As many things in life, moral values or ideologies vary from person to person. A way to appreciate person’s ideologies is through his “works of art”. Throughout his movies: Mean Streets, Goodfellas and Casino, we could analyze the personalization of his thoughts, beliefs or ideologies hidden in his characters.

I think Scorsese’s purpose towards the genre is to show us the real and vivid face of the underground obscure world called: “mafia”. As we could appreciate throughout these movies, he presents to us the duality or the both extremes faces of mafia. On one hand, there is the world of wealth, power and millions. We could see this very clear throug Robert De Niro’s character; Sam and in the character: Nicky. Sam bought his wife’s heart with money as if it could buy love. But at the end of the story we could see she never fell in love with him, so what apparently could buy anything (money), resulted in a not useful weapon.

On the other hand, Nicky has a millionaire life in which he could manage everyone’s life or death with his power, but throughout the movie we could see how this character degenerates into a powerless man who died suffering in a cruel murder after seeing his brother deliration before death.

So, we could see how Scorsese demonstrates the consequences and suffering alive in this world. In other words: justice will always catch you, as we used to say: “eye for eye, teeth for teeth”. This fact is also seen in Taxi Driver and Goodfellas. At the end of Taxi Driver, we saw how Travis took revenge of the owners of the little prostitute and the man who abused her, ending up as a hero for all the country. On Goodfellas, we saw how Henry told all the truth to the authorities and all the members of the gang end up paying for their consequences in jail.

As a conclusion, Scorsese’s ideology is against the mafia world. He accepts is a “cool” world for some time; a world in which we gain a lot of money in an easy way, a world of beautiful women in love with you or, in simply words; a word of money, wealth and power, but he also show us the sad end of these people who will always pay the consequences of their actions.