Lawless(2012)- User Reviews

Prohibition

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Prohibition, as the PBS series by Ken Burns showed, led to many unintended consequences. They included the rise of organized crime and general public cynicism toward the law. The prohibition mentality, as it turned out, was more dangerous to the fabric of American society than liquor ever was.

This film played on the theme of the brothers as heroic outlaws and the law, the federal law, as evil bad guys. It has done a great job.