Trust In The Movie Goodfellas

Trust is believing someone or something is reliable, honest, and effective. In any relationship the people in it need to have trust, so they can be assured that they can share anything with the other person. The movie from 1990 Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese is an example of people having to trust one another. The movie keeps me interested because it keeps you wondering who’s going to be next to be killed even though I have watched it multiple times. If the mob has a problem with you they will deal with you by killing you or your family on easier instances they’ll simply make you disappear. They don’t care if you have been loyal if they lose your trust.
Always watch what you say to people because that could ruin the trust you could have. In

the movie Spider is just a local kid just helping out the mob and providing any needed services. Tommy Devito then doesn’t like Spider’s little remark at him, so he shoots him in the foot. The next time they go out, Spider is there serving them drinks and states some obscenities towards Tommy. He then just kills him right there. This shows that Tommy had a feeling he would no longer trust Spider because he had a smart mouth that could get him and the whole mob in trouble if he didn’t keep his mouth shut. Even though spider was a local kid he still had a little knowledge about what goes on and he could destroy some plans if he over heard anything. If you’re on the lower level of the hierarchy you are still accountable of holding your trust with the mob.
Your own family could be the ones that you could lose trust in.

The scene Wake up Henry is trust issues between Karen and Henry, because both of them lose some trust between each other. The scene starts with Karen holding a gun to Henry’s face while he starts to wake up. Henry then tries to calm Karen down and then flips the problems on her. He tells her I have enough people trying to kill me I don’t need to be killed in my own house. In that scene Karen loses trust in Henry that he is faithful to only her and doesn’t see other women behind her back. While Henry loses his trust with Karen that she might flip and try to kill him like everyone else wants too. Even family can lose trust in each other and that could cause turmoil in a business like the

mob.
When some people are moved up in the hierarchy because they were good for building more money in the business didn’t mean they were protected.

Some people could be almost to the top, but when they were thought they couldn’t be trusted they were whacked. Morrie was a businessman in the wig business and when he needed money or favors he would go to the mob, but Morrie was known of talking a lot and not keeping his mouth shut. This would soon be the cause of the death of him. Vinny didn’t trust him because he spoke to much and he knew he would have to get rid of him, so he could cover any pieces of evidence that could get back to him. Morrie was then going to be taken to a coffee outing but then was killed in front seat of a car because they needed to get rid of him. Morrie had a little bit of an advantage because he was dealing business to them, but when he was no longer needed he was taken

out.
Goodfellas shows that you shouldn’t always trust everyone that is around you, including your own blood. Many groups were not being trusted in this movie, such as law enforcement, family, other businessmen and some of the people didn’t trust themselves. Law enforcement may have had some men go under and react with an attitude towards the whole thing with it was fine, but there was other law enforcement that believe in that way. Family and friends could never be trusted if something was felt like the person was unreliable. Other business men were definitely under watch because people would do anything to make a quick buck for nothing, Some men didn’t even trust themselves, in an instance when Henry had his first trial you could tell he was nervous and was trying to keep his mouth shut and not rat on himself during the hearing. This is why Vinny throughout the movie would kill off men and women constantly, so it would be harder to try to find him guilty for certain things. People only tend to only watch out for themselves and no one else.
In the end no one is really trusted everyone gets their punishment whether it was prison time, death, or put into a witness protection program. Trust is key to staying alive even if you are not in the mob if you can not be trusted your word means nothing. Even simply promising a little favor could mean that someone may never go up to you with good or bad news. Keeping your word is a way to build your trust in others that you may need later on in life. The same goes with not trusting everyone because if someone can get something they’ll go to the ends of the earth just to get what they want and throw you off to the side. Trust is a two way street both parties need to be able to rely on the other to know they got each other’s backs in good or bad times.