Jun 29 2011 10:51 pm
Posted by Mendo under June 30 Assignment
Impacts of five Points: Harlem on Drugs Trade “American Gangster”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSOYSLDuQE&feature=related
During 1970’s; despite the rapid growth of industrialization, immigration, and business competition in New York City, the over population and poverty tended some New Yorkers to be involved in a gangster and smuggling. After watching the movie “Gangster of New York” and watching the segregation, murder, discrimination of power within the people in a movie where regulation and security wasn’t strong, I thought of the movie, ” American Gangster” based on the life of heroin dealer and organized crime boss Frank Lucas (African American) operated in Harlem during 1960s and 1970s. The movie was based on the true story directed by Ridley Scott.
Although the freedom, rules and an equality came among Americans and others, the movie, “American Gangster” made me thought that some impacts of the “five points” history still somehow exist in our present lives in a different names and techniques. The only difference we can see in this present movie is the presence of rules and regulations, security, equality, integrity, disciplined etc. among people and society. For the people suffering poverty, smuggling comes to be the short-cut way of obtaining success and prosperity as Lucas did by making $1 million per day selling drug.