'Cuban People To Miami In Scarface'

The famous film “Scarface” is developed around the immigration of Cuban people to Miami in the 80s. It attempts to display a snapshot of the participation of Cubans in Miami’s corruption, drug trafficking, and mafia. A well succeeded drama about the life of Tony Montana (Al Pacino), an immigrant who turns himself into a drug lord, and his friend Manny Ribera (Steven Bauer). With impeccable performances and reasonable action, the film is criticized by some people, as it is favorite to many others.
There was a particular scene that got my attention. Tony Montana and 3 other characters, where apparently waiting in a car for a guy to get out of a hotel, and Tony realizes that the wife and kids are also in the car. He starts to evaluate the situation to the point where he cannot do the kill, “We kill this guy alone. No wife, no kids.” Then he decides to abandon the mission and kill one of his associates while calling him “vulture”, the one that was ready to detonate the victim’s car without apparent trouble (Palma). The writer challenges the whole nature of the main character, an unforgiving …show more content…
In every country or culture, there are good and bad apples, and Cuba is no exception. But apparently not everybody feels the same about it. There is an article written by a person who also came to the United States in the 80s boatlift. “I … had lots of reasons to hate it when I first saw it as a kid.” States Damarys before explaining how “Marielitos were considered low-lifes, and a lot of us felt like we had to work extra hard to prove people wrong.” (Ocaña). Maybe mixing the inconvenience of been socially mistreated with hate is not the best way to approach a work of art. After all, it only reflects persons and events that occurred in real life. I do not think that we should pour any blame on the movie, and even less on the