You think I am bad?
Did you see what they did to Tommy in the movie?
LOL
"Please vote to preserve the unique character of Warren…" - Robert Duvall

Yikes, Warren!
Don't be so tough on the OG hana's
Tell you what…When I send my ex-wife her money…you can lick the stamps.

Did she know it might have been a set-up
What a really stupid thing to think about.
Obviously the dumb dip **** poster just saw that clip and not the whole movie.
If it had then it would have seen a sweet, dear old lady who adored her son.
There is no way the mafia would have let her in on the set up where she would have stopped him from going.
"Please vote to preserve the unique character of Warren…" - Robert Duvall

Yes, pasta?
"Please vote to preserve the unique character of Warren…" - Robert Duvall

who or what is Shudras, hana!?

Maybe I am shudras or maybe not, buna
But at lease I am not the faker doctor, hana

Hallo bini. This man is look like Shudras and will not worry too much about this one, hana

Greetings buna
Why are you laugh this one. Really I belief you must fix u uni brows, hana

I have to say that you are the ugly mans, buna

Hello, buna

Hana?

I dont belief Jimmy was cry in real, even for one minute, hana

Good scene, buna… especially when Jimmy is cry

Rough scene, hana

Agreed also, hana

I agree buna

I always got the impression that she knew he was becoming a made man, and she was also a little afraid of what might happen.

Of course she knew about the mafia and her son's connection to it. Tommy had been sent away to prison as referenced by his line to Henry : Say hello to the hacks for me. There would be no covering that up with Tommy's mother. Any trial would have been covered by the media along with a verdict and the neighbors would no doubt be asking about it. Those guys made the newspapers quite a bit back in those days and no doubt the mother got a glimpse of that whether she wanted to or not. After a certain point there is no avoiding it even if it personally pains you.

Organized crime is an odd and somewhat fascinating culture.
Everyone knows about it and is proud of it but nobody talks about it. The Bensonhurst area for example, was at one point a hotbed of gangsters but if you went there and asked around you would get a lot of non responses.
Moms know about it. Wives definitely know about it to an extent. But nobody has all the information. Did Tommy's mom know? Absolutely she did. And she was proud of it.

For all we know, he told his mom that he got a new job and that's why she's congratulating him, but considering his father was part of the same lifestyle, chances are so is his mom in one way or another. So I do believe his Mom knew what was going on.
If you're not taking any steps forward, you're not moving at all.

I really wonder if she knew what he did and that he was going to a "Getting made" ceremony?
He could have been lying to her about his life just as he did at the dinner table.
Of course he isn't going to tell his mom that he has a dead guy in the trunk out back but just how honest was he with her about everything else?
Humans are not the only species on earth.
We just act like it.

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It's not his father that was involved with the mob but him (Tommy) and his brothers. The eldest one had already been whacked for being an informant, so Tommy acting like a violent psychopath was to prove to others that he isn't like his brothers. In the movie, Pauly even makes a reference to this when he talks to Henry. He says something along the lines of "he's wild with something to prove."
Just a fun fact.

I will go a little further in that Sorcese gives us the view of Vinny and Tuddy waiting by the car before Tommy departs from the house so the mother if she is not privy to this point can look out the door and get the impression of what is going on with Tommy by looking out at the street. It is probably seldom or never that those two guys ever stopped by Tommy's mother's house up to that day. Upper level mafia guys make the news so it is a good bet that Tommy's mother knows them from watching the local news if she never saw them otherwise.