How This Stanley Kubrick War Movie Influenced HBO’s The Wire

The Wire” is the defining 21-century portrait of top-down institutional failure in the United States.

Over five seasons, creator David Simon and his brilliant team of writers used the whole of Baltimore, from the corruption of City Hall to the get-over-or-get-dead hustle of housing projects, as a microcosm that demonstrates in excruciating detail how the War on Drugs and mass incarceration are destroying urban communities all over the country.

Admirers have often hailed the show for its Dickensian scope, but Simon cites a different, somewhat surprising influence for its withering social critique.Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” is the greatest film ever made about…The post How This Stanley Kubrick War Movie Influenced HBO’s The Wire appeared first on /Film.

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