SnowFall - Idolising War and Drugs in Society

22 Mar 2023

22 Mar 2023

Written by Wei Chang

Written by Wei Chang

SnowFall has presented a serious and unique content that portrays America’s foreign policy in a nutshell and it portrays the war on drugs in the favour of America as drugs have benefited the US to enforce their foreign policies in countries where democracy does not exist. 

SnowFall brings a true capture and reality of how the US wants to use their image and their status to influence culture and manoeuvre societies to adjust to their programmes. The true  colours of CIA are highlighted and the criminality shows how the CIA can orchestrate a manual of manipulation and coercion in neighbourhoods in America and also the jungle of the Amazons. 

SnowFall is a must-watch television series produced by FX Network and originally produced by the late John Singleton. Singleton’s adoration of the black community is highlighted through the beginning of SnowFall and it also shows Singleton’s ingenious ways to bring black casts from the underground to forego a formation of becoming decorated actors and actresses. Singleton puts a story in a different way which allows the audiences to think about the actions of drugs and how it could ruin neighbourhoods.The chosen actors and actresses play a formative role which allows the story to be positioned in a light beam that Singleton wanted to achieve. 

The main actor, Franklin, played by Damson Idris, is a likeable character that reflects the struggles of the neighbourhood where drugs are pushed to unlimited circulation to destroy humans. Franklin plays a deeper role to capture this narrative and also push the narrative of selling drugs to make out of a tough neighbourhood. Franklin’s role is pushed to the limits through the series and it shows how power can lead to success with the ability to control his surroundings and also maintain a status in the corporate and political stances. The criminal injustices are shown throughout the conflict with the control of the war and the state of hegemony on the streets and the regions that America wanted to control. The war on the street is not basic and it brings a catastrophic ending which enables the CIA to infuriate their control in Nicaragua and other Central American countries. 

SnowFall produces a purpose where the drugs and wars are intertwined to show how the drugs from Colombia and other South American countries have formed ways that the US push their central interest and enforce treaties to upstand in  countries that are powerless. SnowFall would change the mindset of an individual and the way that an individual portrays a superpower whose powers are to push a substance that kills millions and poison millions mindsets. SnowFall allows the audiences to relive history in the early 1990s to show that the agency was a powerful force to educate a war in an articulate manner and a structured way to achieve its outcomes in warfare zones. 

The cast are nameless in regards to their Hollywood stardom but the cast delivers a powerful and meaningful story that outlines these narratives of wars on the street. SnowFall has set a benchmark for television series that portray the lives in the 1990s with Reagan’s message for wars on drugs whilst pushing drugs through working and middle class societies. SnowFall provides a good insight to the drugs and violence that the US brought to the deprived neighbourhoods in America. In its fifth season, the television show is still going strong with imaginative stories and it is certain that there will be two more seasons to complete the story for this television show.



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