Grit And Heroin
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A movie can win Best Picture and still feel like a brick wall if you hit it on the wrong night. We watched The French Connection and immediately ran into the big split that makes classic films so fun to argue about: one of us loves the dirt-under-the-fingernails realism, and the other gets stuck on how dark, violent, and character-crowded it can feel without a roadmap.
So we build that roadmap. We walk through the true crime history behind the French Connection heroin smuggling operation, from Turkish opium supply to Marseille refining to North American distribution, and we…
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