http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380268/

Tagline: The incredible true story that inspired "Scarface" and "Miami Vice".

Cocaine Cowboys is narrowly focused on how Miami became the drug capital and the most dangerous city in the
United States during the late 1970s and the early 1980s. The film is lasciviously fascinated with the lavish lifestyle
and the grotesque violence generated by the drug trade. Many obviously find such material quite fascinating.
There's no denying that several anecdotes shared by dealers, smugglers, cops and veteran reporter Edna
Buchanan are very amusing. Fans of TV's Miami Vice and Brian de Palma's Scarface are advised to rush to
a theatre playing this film. They'll find that the real-life models of the fictional villains are even more
flamboyant and vicious (the life of Griselda "the godmother" Blanco could be turned into a nifty fiction film).
CocaineCowboys combines talking-head interviews with old TV footage in rat-tat-tat editing style. Shots of
piles of cash and large stashes of cocaine are used as would-be punctuation marks; and there are more
snapshots of bloody, perforated bodies than you've ever seen in your life.
Cocaine Cowboys is documentary film-making as tabloid journalism. Its cheap thrills provide a measure
of entertainment but its reportage is devoid of context and thoughtful commentary. Director Billy Corben is a
native, but as one born in 1979 his view of the material is decidedly second-hand. Towards the latter stages,
Cocaine Cowboys strains to present Miami as "the city that cocaine built" by hyperbolically describing late-70s
Miami as a "sleepy hamlet". There is some truth to the argument but it is a self-serving and simplistic one.
Moreover, the content as presented here is likely to perpetuate certain ethnic stereotypes about the
Colombian community and Cuban "marielitos" (Cubans who arrived when Castro allowed migration to the
US through the port of Mariel in 1980).

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If only the brokeback mountain dudes were cocaine cowboys..... they would have been too limp to succumb to their temptations

Thanks for the share!