Scarface

[Rev. Rye]

Who said it's okay to sell cocaine and do that, uh...other thing you were going on about?

Failure to accept your DEMAND that "Crime doesn't pay" be the precise moral takeaway of the story, doesn't necessarily mean that one holds the belief of the title character being a hero/good guy, Brian. I'm certain you don't need me to tell you that, though.

And, of course, even being blatant in one's moral doesn't necessarily mean the audience will give a crap about it. Just look at the career of Charlie Brooker. He starts out making a fake TV guide called TVGoHome that was, in its day, ranked up there with The Onion in terms of parody sites, but he stopped doing it in 2003 because he realised that real TV was getting as fucked up as the shows he was making up. Hell, he even personally turned one into a series, even if he changed the name from Cunt to Nathan Barley. And now, with Black Mirror, it seems that the world is hell-bent on making all the disturbing technological advances in the series into cold, hard, realities.

Brooker is not, and never has been, in any way, subtle about the shit he's talking about being bad things, but that hasn't stopped the world from remaking itself in his image.