There is no such a thing named "right"

Rating: 8/10 (10 June 2013)

Al Pacino did an excellent job in this film with the acting talent by nature and the Italian background which presumably helps him act as a mob. I never know how to judge the "acting skill" of an actor but Al Pacino's Tony Montana left a deep impression on me -- a guy who exists in order to gloriously be himself. Tony did not believe any governmental or cultural propaganda. What he truly relied on were his intuition and guts, which unfortunately, messed him up when things went beyond control.
Came out of the prison of C** Cuba, Tony did not trust Capitalist neither. There is no supreme rightness in the world from his understanding. In Tony's life, people cheat when they are doing business; people used money to kill others; people bought election and so forth. The world is so bleak that Tony just let himself go. He believed he lived more honestly than others. He commented on other people like this: "You are not good. You just know how to hide; how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I am always telling the truth even when I am lying." That is really cocky, which explains his disdain of the world. They suit up in public and f×ck around in private out of primitive nature. They show courtesy like well-educated citizens but also spare no time to play tricks trying to fool others. Tony hated all of these but at the same time, indulged in them. I guess he had a strong sense of self-hatred. Tony sticked to his own standard of right and wrong cuz people who made the rules are corrupted. It's kind of a self- defense system combined with the cynical attitude towards the society. That's exactly what is happening now though people displayed in different ways. The man who burned the school bus expressed his anger in an extreme way. He got confused of the standard to be a good citizen. Well, you know, when the broadly recognized social justice broke down in his heart he was in a sphere of limitless: The so-called social justice is not right so the it is highly possible that the whole society was misconstructed in the moral sense. Then I could have the right to decide what is right or wrong. He could justify his behavior in this way. I don't know why I connect these two totally different things together cuz the imaginary Tony never tried to believe, at least not showed in the movie while the real man might collapse after years of struggle. It is not a deep movie but I resonated with my confusion on how to define a good person and a bad one. Like the poster of the film, we don't know how to differentiate black and white. Who decides?
Anyway, it is a classic gangster movie made in 1983 and Al Pacino's haunting performance made it different. I hate bloody scenes but I love violence in a proper way. The primitive anger and lust twisted people and destroyed them. People, as human beings, have limit and we will never have absolute right or wrong. We walk on a fine line to make sense of the whole social system.