As a prequel, or a side story, Netflix's annual giant "Narcos: Mexico", which has been waiting for a year, is finally online. In addition to the retro style and violent aesthetics still running through, the fourth season even has some dark humor. Unlike the previous three seasons, the focus of this season's anti-drug campaign is no longer on Colombia and the United States, but on the gray area between Colombia and the United States - Mexico.
As we all know, Mexico has always shown a vicious and desolate image in film and television works, such as "SICARIO" (Border Killer), which is also a fight against drug dealers. , referred to as: fighting poison with poison. There is absolutely no mercy in the face of drug dealers. But if this is the case, everyone will be hard-hearted and upright, and the drug lord will definitely have no place to die in Mexico. The biggest obstacle before the road to anti-drug is corruption. Corruption is like the saying in the poem, "The wildfire can't burn out, and the spring breeze blows again." There is basically corruption in places with green vegetation. Corruption is the ugliest demon in the human heart. With it, the impossible evil will become possible.
Corruption is one of the most popular tactics used by drug lords. Buying police and wooing politicians has become a common practice for drug lords. In Mexico, even the most unruly police bosses can be forcibly persuaded by corruption. Everything in Mexico seemed hopeless until a few US DEA agents arrived.
There are only two core characters in this season, Kiki played by Michael Pena, as a Mexican-American police officer who grew up in Baja California, went deep into his native Mexico to carry out anti-drug work, facing a powerful new rise and the first in the world to rise The drug cartel - Guadalajara Cartel, he tried his best, but could only stop in the face of a corrupt bureaucracy. On the other hand, Miguel Angel Felix Garllardo, played by Diego Luna, slowly began to get in touch with cocaine from a small drug dealer who made his fortune from marijuana. After two important groups in the first three seasons, the Cali group and the Medellin group coerced and lured. Finally, he embarked on the road of a drug lord selling heroin.
After watching the fourth season, I said that the biggest difference I feel is that the fourth season's pictures have become more retro, and the style of the pictures has the dreamy style of the 1980s and 1990s. Maybe this is more in line with this book. The clue of the play "Magic Realism". Telling stories in such a phony situation, the fourth season has firmly attracted the attention of the audience.
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Of course, besides the game of good and evil, one of the biggest highlights of this season is that there must be some easter eggs as a prequel, and the biggest one is none. . . That's right, the appearance of Pablo Escobar, the craziest drug lord in history in the first three seasons! (Of course, there are two subordinates of the Kali Group, but the aura is not as strong as this one...)
Finally, the heartbreaking yet inspiring kiki quote at the end is attached
Michael Pena grasped the emotion of the last scene very well. From the helpless start at the beginning, he begged felix to live home to Kiki, who turned the corner and saw that he was going to die.
Finally, rest in peace for the warriors who gave their lives for the anti-drug cause, RIP
If there is no benefit, the flower of evil will never bloom.
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