Good, but ironically usurped

Rating: 7/10 (27 October 2005)

Scarface is by all means a good film, Al Pacino is, as ever fantastic, and I have no quarrel with this. However, I've you've ever seen 'cribs', just about every person on there exclaims this to be the "greatest film ever" or some such. They just can't seem to see the irony. Scarface is a thinly disguised attack on capitalism and its ability to corrupt: a nobody arrives from Cuba (a communist country) and begins to exploit the capitalist system until he's living in a huge mansion, surrounded by mountains of cocaine, and wife who hates him. In such, capitalism has corrupted him, its taken away everything he had, most obviously his morals, as he betrays the "don't get high on your own supply" rule. And herein the irony lies. there they are, on cribs, in THEIR huge mansions, praising this attack on capitalism, the very system that has gotten them where they are.