At the risk of sounding like an utter film bro…. This film actually is an amazing picture. I was kinda shocked; last time i saw this film I was 15. Then I discovered Fellini and Bergman and the original Scarface and got on my pretentious soapbox and just kinda doxed this movie as Mainstream and overrated for years. 

Having rewatched it: its brilliantly written, Shakespearean even, tony Montana is arguably a top 5 al pacino performance to me. He should’ve…

At something of an impasse with this one. At its best, it’s insightful nuanced and poignant, where as at its worst its intellectually dishonest and short sighted. 

I find the fact that this film has this dialogue on the type of art that white people call insightful, powerful and provocative… while being the type of art that white people call insightful, powerful and provocative is deliciously ironic. I cant tell if its done on purpose but something tells me its…