We see the rise of the real-life Harlem gangster Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), who in 1968 went to Northern Thailand, purchased uncut heroin, shipped it to New York, and sold it onthestreets at twice the strength and half the price of what the Mafia was selling.
She said unless politicians went to thestreets in working class areas and they wouldn't understand the "unbelievable pressure" on young girls and women about how they looked.