This hard-bitten narco drama in the vein of Heat (1995) (ie who's the good guys, whoops maybe nobody) hits hard and doesn't stop, is it overdramatic yes of course, is it realistic in any way I don't know probably not, but it doesn't flinch from demonstrating the disastrous effects of US drug policy.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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