Unlike the orthodox family gangs in Italy, the rise of American gangs in such a mixed society has its own characteristics, such as speculation, such as money, and race.
Denzel Washington, this man with few expressions, played such an American gang leader. As the Frank Lucas in the play, he has a personality cult. He admires his former boss, learns a lot from the boss, and also follows some ideas and practices, but it is different from the boss’s old tradition, which is the so-called social development belt. The various speculations and violations of the rules that come here, you must know that both society and the gang have their own rules, but he has violated the rules because it doesn't make much sense for him to be wrong or right. American society always criticizes government behavior. The drama strongly criticizes the fact that the police are dealing in drugs. Yes, it can be said that the fact is. There is a sentence in the opening of the film: from the true story. So there is indeed the fact that the police force drugs from drug dealers and then create low-quality drugs to sell. As a drug dealer, he was also very dissatisfied, but he obeyed this rule, but Frank broke the law. He used the army to transport drugs directly from Vietnam. He manufactured high-purity but low-cost drugs himself, thus disrupting the entire market, and he immediately occupied In the entire drug market, there are no middlemen and no operators, so they skip directly and use their own family to operate alone. Just like many commercial competitions in the entire American society, he, such a black man, has achieved what the Italian gang has not done for many years. Kind of drug monopoly.
Another man, Russell Crowe’s role as Ricky Roberts, who seems to be not very ambitious, is a policeman, a policeman who handed in money without any marks, so he was isolated. The other policemen felt that he was Different flows must be repelled. He is not a very good person in his life. He is carefree, neurotic, and self-proclaimed. His wife and son have left him. Like Frank, he is a person who violates the rules and is naturally easy to be rejected as an alien.
The two men finally confronted, and Ricky’s layers of investigation finally followed Frank’s line. It was also destined that Frank was exhausted, the war was over, and his transportation channels were cut off, which made him dead end, and the drug policemen The persecution, the squeeze out of colleagues, the traitors within the family, and finally the drugs were intercepted, the drug dens and homes were destroyed, and the people were captured. If the story ends here, then it is not the American gang. Frank finally found the worms inside the police by the most tainted witness, which shocked the entire police world.
In fact, I didn’t find any classics in the film. Some shots seemed a bit scribble, but I didn’t figure out who is the American gang, the gang itself, or all the people involved in gang activities, including the military, social leaders, and police. The advancement of society requires some people to break some rules and create some rules, but the creation and destruction of rules will make the team organization hurt.
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