I feel like a lot of people genuinely don't get why Scarface is so tragic and what makes Tony Montana like, a compelling but also terrible character, unless you know anything about Florida and Miami at the time. Dozens of people in his position were happy to just finally see their families again. What he does is actually insane and you don't realize how much of a waste it is unless you met ppl who didn't know if they were gonna see their family in Cuba or not. Many people would have done anything to have what he had— his mom and sister and the idea of a stable life etc. not only is his greed crazy to an American audience, it's ESPECIALLY A CRAZY thing when you know most people from Cuba didn't get to reunite with their families for decades and he had a chance and immediately blew it by being weird and emotionally incestous to his sister.













