"listen up ...u fuck..the only 2 things i got in this world...my balls and' my word..an' i dont break either of 'em....."
Tony Montana.(Scarface)
Scarface...old movie...retro by my standards...wel...retro by everybody's standards...all those who r in their 20's or up...!
Scarface...bang on target in 1983....not anymore...well...those times...these kinda things happened ...well...rite in front of ppl like u & me...not nymore....now its more hush-hush....organised....kept under hi-class...high-confidential wraps..!!but then.....how cn an al pacino movie ever be irrelevant or outta time???no sir..!!its still bang on target..!!specailly that 1 line.."hey...look at me...u all need bad-guys like me..so u can point fingers...look...there goes the bad guy....and wot does it do???it makes u good???no it doesnt make u good..!!"so...he says that we are all the same...so apt...we wannna point fingures and make ppl believe that the bad guy is different...he's everything that we aren't...and vice-versa..!!he' got a point....nails it down like hell...!thats whr it scores...we nvr get tired of our defence mechanisms...thats how we survive....we hide under the carpet..!!thats wot we do..!!nyways....wot we wanna discuss is...whether scarface can ever succeed...can he ever be perfect....and avoid downfall...!??
well...if u look at a guy...well..ask a guy....if he'd like 2 be scarface....8 outta 10 wud say ...hell yeah!!well....cuz its a very guy thing 2 be in control...i dont wanna be a chauvinist....but its there....maybe its because of al pacino...they wanna be like him....they all wanna internalise his arrogance...the swagger....the "i dont give a fuck" attitude...so there..!!
and the best part is...even when we see him getting screwed....loosing all his frnds...all his partners...his woman...his family....his control...his mind....we somehow...dont feel..that..its a bad position to be in...its because...we think..that we can do better...we wont committ the same mistakes that he did...!!we will somehow manage 2 puul oursellves out..we will somehow fix everything up..!!we will somehow be in control and prove better than him..!!well...yeah..maybe...but what we fail to realise...is...that we are watchin him...we are observers...we have the benefit of retrospect...we can analyse things....take our time & manipulate the situations virtually...and think that we can be in control....i donno...maybe its not that easy...its the same wen we are watchin a cricket match and we keep cursing the batsman for not hittin the ball outta the ground everytime...we are observers...so tend to fall into the famous actor-observer trap...thats very human...!!The fact of the matter remains that the life that scarface leads...the path he chooses...is erroneous...it leads to isolation...ruins....self-annihilation...dehumanistaion...!thats what happened to him...and is highly likely to happen to all of us....no matter how composed....& in-control we are...coz we are mortals...humans....we dont always think from our minds...we are the same all-singing...all-dancing crap of the world...as tyler wud say..!!
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