All that quick money made by George Jung in Blow or Nicky Santoro in Casino, speaks to our desires.
Audiences are compelled by people who disregard the laws of the state but obey a deeper code – rules that are sanctioned on the road and shaped in the blood of feuds.
I often think that had Karl Marx written Capital today, he would have done so by writing a series on crime.
And the relationships between merchandise, money and goods would have been perfectly synthesised in the story of the global market for cocaine.