A Most Violent Year

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  1. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Has anyone seen this movie? Oscar Isaac is a really good actor. It’s about 1981 in New York which was considered the most violent year in the city’s recorded history. Something like 130,000 vehicle thefts and 2100 murders happened in the city that year. To put that in perspective, In 2013 there were around 15k vehicle thefts and 648 murders.

    It’s a story about a guy who is in the oil business and is trying to expand and buy a harbor property but trying to do it clean without breaking the law which I guess was the standard practice amongst oil people in New York? I’m not sure how this story came about but it’s a good movie.
     

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