Such a great movie, so many hidden depths of characters that you can’t uncover in one watch. Each time I watch it, it’s a different character or scenes that speak to me.

Nerdwriter has a great video essay on it: https://youtu.be/VMLej6hFN30

This is the most “follow your passion” movie. De Niro’s character is obviously very skilled in being a criminal and gets some sort of personal satisfaction out of it. It’s his passion, he lives lonely lige because he is obsessed with his job.