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On 2/23/19 1:07 PM, Jeffrey Masko wrote:
Gangster movies are /always /explorations of ultra-capitalism, an axiom in film studies. What makes them interesting to me is how they indict, or fail to indict, other connected social institutions, (for instance, Coppola and Scorsese's fascination with the Catholic Church and how that shapes family relations). /Scarface/ and others begin to point more candidly to how the "clean" money of bankers and others are as culpable as the "drug dealers" for the situation that we have now in the U.S.
I didn't mention this in my review but the best film ever about drug traffic was actually called "Traffik", a British 6-part TV series that was set in Pakistan and that made a poppy grower one of its main characters. Steven Soderbergh made a second-rate adaptation of this called "Traffic" set in Mexico that had much more in common with with the Netflix series I reviewed.
Traffik can be seen on Amazon Prime and I give it my strongest recommendation both as drama and as social commentary.
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