According to Sassen, in the age of global economy, the geographic dispersal of economic activities feeds the “growth and importance of central corporate functions” (Sassen, 2005). The term global city was coined by Saskia Sassen, as a concept to show the relation between the city and the process of globalization (Acuto, 2017). But why does this image come up? Is it somewhat representative of the characteristics of a global city? What is a global city anyway? A classic story of greed and excesses, and the violence that comes with them. The film follows Tony rising through the criminal world of the city, and slowly, as he becomes more excessive and out of control, reaches his own demise. Whenever I hear the term global city, I picture a bloodied Al Pacino, machine-gun in hand, staring out the window of his tacky, over-the-top luxurious apartment, into a flying zeppelin displaying a text that says “The World is Yours.” It is a scene from the film Scarface, about a Cuban refugee named Tony Montana (played by Al Pacino), who arrives in the city of Miami in the 1980s.
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