I love this movie. I think it gets overlooked at times, but it really is an excellent mob picture. I watched it the other night, and I noticed something that I never noticed before. Lefty gets sent for at the end because Donnie ended up being a rat. I always thought that everything ended up ok because in the scene where the agents show the crew pictures of Donnie with the FBI, Sonny says something like "they almost had me going," as if to say that he didn't believe Donnie was a rat. Did he do this just to put Lefty's mind at ease, if only for the moment?
One other thing...
In one of the final scenes, when Lefty gets the call, we see his girlfriend drying her hair and them saying goodbye to eachother. She looks less ditzy than in past scenes and calls him "Ben" instead of "Benny." Is there something to this? Or am I just looking too far into it?
Jim