ScarFace

This is my favorite movie (amongst a few other classics such as Forest Gump and the Color Purple).

But if you think I like it because of the glorification of the drug life...you don't understand.

As odd as it sounds, I connected with the character and keep his ultimate flaw in mind. Tony is a self made man. He illegally arrived in the USA from Cuba. Knowing that he couldn't rely upon an education, equality or opportunity - he achieved the American dream in a rather unconventional way. The hardest scene, yet the scene the defines his character is in a Miami hotel. These cocaine dealers set him up and plot to take his money without making a sale. At one point this dude shoves a gun in his face and Tony's response is, "why don't you try sticking your foot up your ass, see if it fits." Basically he had no fear, not even when his life depended on it.

Where I connect with the character is on his main character flaw: the inability to trust anybody. I've been screwed over my fair share of times, and while ideally I would make a full recovery from the past, it has left it's scars on my heart. *cue in small violin here.* Tony instead didn't trust anybody because of his greed and irrational protection of all that he considered good in life (his best friend, his sister). He ends up destroying all that is good in his life, including himself.

Ehh - Scarface is on, it's 5:30 am. I was browsing on Facebook and looking at some college buddies pics thinking, not in an envious jealous psycho bitch way, but a introspective way...that was supposed to be me. Why did I chose to move to Atlanta far away from family and friends? Like Tony, I was headstrong and determined to make a way for myself...by myself. At the expense of......

Nevermind Michelle Pfifer looks gorgeous and dressed flawlessly.