Corrupción en Miami

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Very rarely do I brave the crowds to see a movie on its opening night, so it’ll tell you something that I’ve bought tickets to see Miami Vice tonight. As a fan of the television series, I’ve been looking forward to this movie for some time. Although I’ve been avoiding details of the story, I’ve gleaned enough from the reviews to know that they are widely favorable and that the movie is dark. This is welcome if unsurprising news. I wouldn’t expect anything less from director (and original show co-creator) Michael Mann, who’s also responsible for one of my favorite movies of all time, Heat. Few people seem to know that despite the glitz, pastels, and often-overwrought scripts, Miami Vice was a very dark series.

The Atlantic online trots out this 2000 piece from its archives about Charles Willeford, the father of Miami crime fiction, which I plan to check out. “Miami Blues and the three subsequent novels featuring Hoke Moseley–Willeford’s first cop protagonist–present a Miami in transition, after the 1980 Mariel boatlift that hyper-accelerated the Latinization of the area’s population, but before the city was renovated and rejuvenated. Moseley’s South Beach is still decrepit and full of old people, but a new sense of danger pervades the streets–a scent of violent desperation among refugees from Latin America and opportunists from the rest of the United States.”

Jul 28, 2006 | Comments

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