Miami Vice

You have to feel this one more than most and with each viewing I’ve been able to parse out so much emotion bubbling out of what countless people call empty, of course these lives bleed into a mosaic of detachment and we are meant to desperately make sense of a wasted life just like they are. I would never fault someone for not rocking with this spiritual anomaly but don’t hold it against me that this is part of my DNA, I mean just look at my profile picture. The only thing more shamelessly implemented than the musical notes is the dialogue that’s obsessed with interdivisional undercover jargon, he just can’t help himself and neither can I. Digital photography has never looked as beautifully abstract as it does here, god tier design I’m afraid to say. It becomes so much more than a career reassessment for Mann, it almost is him trying to reject some of his (few) formal tendencies from the 1980s. Like it’s certainly all there in both, the aura of sadness and regret is so thick here. Pray a ray of light appears. Shine down on us here. There’s a crack in the clouds, but only for a moment now.