Haven't seen Generation Kill - but heard it was good - too. They definitely like to reuse the same actors...
Nick's father worked for a factory that went under - I think you can see it in the background a lot, crumbling away - work at the dock is dwindling, the working class is being squeezed out, so everyone's ripe for corruption and smuggling.
Noticed that. Nick's constantly mentioning how he doesn't have enough - that if he can only get some more hours - so he can get a place for himself, girlfriend and child. And that's why he gave into Ziggy's plea to steal from a container. Frank tells him that he should have just come to Frank - because stealing from the container means that ships are less likely to dock. If they can't trust where the cargo goes...they'll dock somewhere else. Hurts everyone. The ripple effect on this show is great - how everyone's actions, no matter how disconnected they seem affect other people in a variety of small and big ways.
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Date: 2011-07-01 04:02 pm (UTC)Nick's father worked for a factory that went under - I think you can see it in the background a lot, crumbling away - work at the dock is dwindling, the working class is being squeezed out, so everyone's ripe for corruption and smuggling.
Noticed that. Nick's constantly mentioning how he doesn't have enough - that if he can only get some more hours - so he can get a place for himself, girlfriend and child.
And that's why he gave into Ziggy's plea to steal from a container. Frank tells him that he should have just come to Frank - because stealing from the container means that ships are less likely to dock. If they can't trust where the cargo goes...they'll dock somewhere else. Hurts everyone. The ripple effect on this show is great - how everyone's actions, no matter how disconnected they seem affect other people in a variety of small and big ways.