Synopsis
The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
2010 Directed by Gianfranco Rosi
The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
El Sicario - Room 164
El Sicario works as an unofficial companion piece to Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence. All three films study the fluidity of what's "right" and the duality of the human being. Fearless stuff.
By giving the Sicario a sketchbook as a stand in for his hooded face, this simple film manages to make a storytelling session into something cinematic. Terrifying.
Extrem verstörende und erschütternde Doku über die Mechanismen hinter mexikanischen Auftragsmorden. Auch durch die ruhige und konzentrierte Machart sehr empfehlenswert. Zur kontroversen Thematik gesellt sich noch das erschütternde Charisma des Auftragskillers - immer wieder muss man sich ins Gedächtnis rufen, dass es sich nicht um einen Schauspieler handelt, sondern einen eiskalten Killer.
Komplett auch auf YouTube verfügbar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7_OvLyW2c
As unsettling a monologue as I can recall and the formal minimalism/location works. Yep.
With a minimum of distractions—brief snatches of buildings and overhead shots of Juarez aside, Rosi's presence is signalled primarily by the camera's shifting position as it seeks a better vantage, focusing alternatingly on the sicario's notebook, his expressive hands, or stepping back to follow the sicario's re-enactments— and a disquieting matter-of-factness, the "sicario" exposes, in meticulous detail and at an unhalting clip, the inner workings and practices of the Mexican drug cartels that have exacted devastating damage on the country, detailing the extent to which these organizations have maneuvered themselves into positions of control and unimpeachable power through coercion, blackmail, and bribery. Accompanied by a series of simple, childlike illustrations, the directness of the sicario's delivery effectively turns these lurid…
He wears the mask of an executioner that disfigures subtly the way the screen in a confessional does. For a constantly gripping narrative (shot, almost exclusively just of a man talking in a hotel room while drawing and writing in a journal) it really took me aback in those final ten minutes. Our sicario tells his redemption (thanks to Jesus) well, but he doesn't get redemption. NO! He fucking doesn't. He has paid no debt. Writing a book and saying your sorry and found Jesus doesn't suddenly make all that came before okay. You aren't allowed to find peace. The suffering you have caused...
FTR I'm as burn down the fucking prisons and release millions of people from the bondage…
Gianfranco Rosi, in veste di psicoterapeuta con la macchina da presa, decide di far parlare il suo protagonista a ruota libera in un’unica location: la stanza di un motel. Stanza che tra l’altro sarà teatro di ricordi, riflessioni e momenti catartici. Praticamente il confessionale del Grande Fratello. Comunque, la camera fissa in lunghi pianisequenza un misterioso uomo che racconta la sua vita mentre disegna e scrive su un quaderno. Si tratta di un ex narcotrafficante messicano che, adeguatamente velato, spiega i meccanismi e i codici sui quali si fonda la potenza del Cartello per cui lavorava e narra le gesta della sua vita da sicario, tra sequestri, torture violentissime, stupri e omicidi disumani. Quello del sicario è stato un percorso…
Everything you always wanted to know about to be a Sicario, but didn't have the chance to ask
Gianfranco Rosi, in veste di psicoterapeuta con la macchina da presa, decide di far parlare il suo protagonista a ruota libera in un’unica location: la stanza di un motel. Stanza che tra l’altro sarà teatro di ricordi, riflessioni e momenti catartici. Praticamente il confessionale del Grande Fratello. Comunque, la camera fissa in lunghi pianisequenza un misterioso uomo che racconta la sua vita mentre disegna e scrive su un quaderno. Si tratta di un ex narcotrafficante messicano che, adeguatamente velato, spiega i meccanismi e i codici sui quali si fonda la potenza del Cartello per cui lavorava e narra le gesta della sua vita da sicario, tra sequestri, torture violentissime, stupri e omicidi disumani. Quello del sicario è stato un percorso…
"It’s like getting cornered in an expat bar by a blowhard looking for company, except it’s a creepy motel room, and the man is a career killer." -- Nicolas Rapold, Film Commen
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La vida de sicario de este arrepentido transcurría entre drogas, bebida y lujos enajenadores, que lo hacían día a día soportar la brutalidad y drama de su trabajo. Al final del documental explica…
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Everything you always wanted to know about to be a Sicario, but didn't have the chance to ask
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