GOODFELLAS (1990)

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I was 14 years old. Sitting at the dining table, watching a film with my family at dinner. I don't always stay for the whole movie, just eat and then go to my room. This night, I didn't leave. I stayed and watched the whole 3-hour movie, peeled to every second, and every millisecond. Everything about this movie is classic. Everything about this movie is emotion. It touches you on the deepest level. It has fear, it has courage, it has love, loyalty, and it has betrayal. There are drugs, there is sex. There is Layla playing as dead bodies are discovered in cars, in dumpsters, in meat trucks, and it is somehow the most beautiful, truth revealing moment captured on film. I know every word of the movie. And when I say a song is in the movie, and can name the scene and what it happening--don't doubt me. I know.

And during the closing credits, Sid Vicious sings Elvis Presley's My Way and that too, started me on another love affair. And my mom told me that I should see Sid N Nancy.