It does illuminiate some of the drug business pretty well, it's just not as tightly narrated, or as small scale as Goodfellas. You see the contribution of the US polices on immigration/Cuba, you see poverty, then you see the kingpins like Frank, the corrupt banks that launder the drug cash, and the real source of supply kingpins like Sosa. The supply flow from Bolivia to Miami.
The corrupt lawyers who keep the ball rolling, the shady car dealers who sell them the cars, and the Justice Department guys doing their thing to stop trafficking. You see the role of the media, small ways, and the way politics plays a role, the UN confrence speech or whatever. The way political corruption worked in South America too. He explains the entire cocaine industry, it is organized, tightly organized. They show you the beginning way lots of deals were done, in low budget hotel rooms, with everyone armed. A few kilos . They don't show the flow of cocaine onto the streets and into the parties and clubs and all that, like mid level distribution, like the way a Goodfellas movie would. As in the guys who Frank would wholesale to, who then whoelsale it to smaller guys and all the way down. Or the guys who took 25 kilos or 100 kilos in Boston or whatever,
The corrupt lawyers who keep the ball rolling, the shady car dealers who sell them the cars, and the Justice Department guys doing their thing to stop trafficking. You see the role of the media, small ways, and the way politics plays a role, the UN confrence speech or whatever. The way political corruption worked in South America too. He explains the entire cocaine industry, it is organized, tightly organized. They show you the beginning way lots of deals were done, in low budget hotel rooms, with everyone armed. A few kilos . They don't show the flow of cocaine onto the streets and into the parties and clubs and all that, like mid level distribution, like the way a Goodfellas movie would. As in the guys who Frank would wholesale to, who then whoelsale it to smaller guys and all the way down. Or the guys who took 25 kilos or 100 kilos in Boston or whatever,
yeah, the other part that always had me rolling is when he's giving Tony the rule to the games and he goes, "never underestimate the other guy's greed" and he starts laughing. it's how animated he said it and how he laughs 
When she throws her arms up to the beat, and the hook comes in. Gets me every time.
