I love 70s movies because they’re gritty and showy at the same time, and they look great, and they don’t try too hard, they know they’re movies, but al pacino tries too hard here and for some reason it works great, this is a classic, but also it’s boring if you’re looking for action; it’s really a character study, and also it has funny ideas about sexuality that are ahead or maybe behind the times i’m not sure, and also travolta’s character mentions this movie in Swordfish and that’s all I have to say about that.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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