In the movie Layer Cake, London’s drug lord played by Michael Gambon before he was Dumbledore, explains to the Young Turk, played by a pre-James Bond Daniel Craig, the facts of life. The scene alone is worth the price of admission, it’s stuck with me after seeing the movie more than half a decade ago.
It’s something a lot of people don’t see. They just accept what they’re told. They’ve never been able to breathe that rarefied air, if they even realize it’s possible at all…