That addictive combination of brutality, enormous wealth and personal charisma, which fuels so many careers and genres of fiction, is precisely what creators Chris Brancato and Carlo Bernard & Doug Miro and director Jose Padilha attempt to explore with "Narcos," which begins streaming Friday.
I told Sam Bassiel that if I was going to be involved, I wanted to make the screenplay better (specifically, by cutting the enormous amount of brutality and gratuitous sex scenes).
While we currently wrestle with the enormous social issues of brutality, violence and irrational hatred, we seldom take time to celebrate the sweeping up of tiny injustices around the edge of society, that constant recalibration of conduct which keeps us moving towards a better place.
Rizzo's clout never stretched beyond Philadelphia, though: His higher aspirations were tarnished by a series of scandals, many linked to patronage or police brutality, and an enormous tax hike to pay for his largesse.
Over the past year or so, the police reform movement has achieved some enormous success in raising awareness about police brutality, police use of force and police shootings.
But what is most striking about the building is its brutality: in its brooding monumentality, it evokes an enormous airless tomb.
"Since the outset, and in spite of the enormous security and other challenges posed by a conflict of such scale and brutality, UNICEF and its partners have been delivering clean water, sanitation, education, health and immunization services, and psychosocial care to millions of children and their families.
Katyn was just one part of Stalin's enormous mincing machine, which was itself just a part of a longer history of Soviet brutality that started with Lenin and ended with Gorbachev.
"Brutality must be called brutality".
This country would also do enormous damage to its moral and strategic standing if it now simply abandoned the Afghan people to the Taliban's brutalities.
