MIM Movie Review

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

   Carlito's Way (1993)

   Al Pacino is a Puerto Rican gangster who gets out of prison and tries
   to go straight. Cops and district attorneys are corrupt, the prison
   system is not rehabilitative, and judges are unabashedly on the side
   of prosecutors. There are no good cops in the film. Carlito tries
   to lead a clean life without Christianity or psychology as saviors,
   which is a relief. When the police try to get him to testify against
   a friend who crossed him, Carlito figures out a way to get back at
   the friend without selling out to the pigs. The "honorable gangster"
   is a movie cliche, but MIM is glad to see it dragged out in today's
   increasingly fascist cultural climate.