I was watching a movie the other night, and I noticed something I hadn't before. It was the British movie, "Dirty Pretty Things," which was truly dark and creepy. But the thing that struck me was this:

At one point in the movie, an illicit business deal is going down: money for kidneys. Fair enough (ick). And I was cringing, waiting for someone to get killed. But no one did. The kidney and the money were exchanged, and then the movie continued. If it were an American movie, someone would have been killed.

With all the drugs, guns, illegal porn, (and kidneys?) bought and sold in the United States every year, there must be lots of perfectly successful business deals involving large briefcases filled with cash. But in Hollywood, every drug dealer shoots their connection, or vice-versa. Every arms dealer gets shot by a righteous cop. Shit, even Wall Street bankers shoot each other over their scams. If that happened all the time, the massive wheels of our underground economy would truly come to screeching halt. But it doesn't, does it?

If I were a businessman, I would demand that Hollywood start treating us more fairly. I mean, after all, there's money to be made.