Kindness is a choice, and the cycle of violence can be stopped.

Rozella 2022-01-17 08:01:46

First extract some confessions from the movie.
At the beginning, the drug maker: "What can I say, I know that drugs are harmful to those places, but what can we do? We are born in poverty. If we do well, we may be like you, like you These guys travel the world the same way to make clean money. But if we start paying attention to our own conscience, we are done. As long as God allows, we will do it. As long as he allows, we will make drugs."
At the end, Nailer said: "The world is Everyone wants to make a difference. They are just like me. They are tired, tired of sitting, tired of waiting, they are tired of no one, so they enforce the law by themselves, this The cycle should stop, you just want to change them. I left home because of my father’s physical and mental abuse of me. But at some point, he finally met my daughters and he praised me and said, hey, they They are all good kids, with rules and regulations. They are smart and talkative and so on. I told him, I want to thank him, because everything he did to me, I did the opposite. So the cycle is What can be changed is that someone needs to change them. But we are caught in a vicious circle where no one wants to change. When they start talking, they can change, but they don’t do anything. They repeat the same things, Except with strange eyes."

This movie is full of opposites. A wall has two sides, inside and outside. The iceberg and the sea are different forms of the same substance, just like the drug cartel and the Self-Defense Force without a doctor. The drug lords kidnapped, seized public property, and indiscriminately killed innocent people, while the Self-Defense Forces did what they believed to be the right thing. The land of drug trafficking, because of poverty, because of the drug trade, because of violence, because of the human nature that is gradually being deceived, the land of drug trafficking, is a swamp that makes people sink deeper and deeper.

"Between right and wrong, between good and evil, there is an imaginary line: I believe that what I do is good, and I believe that I am opposed to the devil." How many people do what they think is right and just , In fact, is becoming someone he is not ashamed of?
When I saw the trailer, I thought of "Blood Diamond". One piece of land breeds another person, and a person has roots. It probably takes a lot of effort to pull the roots out of the land where they are born. From the moment you were born, what you have seen is poverty, violence, and competition for limited resources. With diamonds and drugs that can make huge profits and get you out of this land, how would you choose? Choice, I have always regarded it as the most mysterious thing. The action of making a choice is determined by the previous path (personality, experience, environment), and the result of making the choice will change the path after you, but it seems like in the dark. Everything has been arranged first by the hand of fate.

There is no absolute right or wrong, good and evil, and no one can judge you on the commanding heights of morality. It only depends on how you choose.

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Extended Reading
  • Stephan 2022-03-21 09:02:59

    The charm of documentaries is to make absolutely real happenings into scenes that can only appear in the works of literary screenwriters. The government was unable to eradicate the drug lords' persecution of the town, so the people set up an organization to fight back in self-defense. If the government is incompetent and the law collapses, can the people illegitimately use violence to maintain their own safety?

  • Abe 2022-03-14 14:12:26

    The whole process of watching the film is thinking about a question, whether this is a film in the form of a documentary or a real documentary. The scale is so large that our celestial dynasty can't match it for 100 years. From the perspective of drug dealers, the self-defense forces of Mexico and the United States look at drug trafficking and prohibition. The saddest thing was the ending. The leader of the Self-Defense Force was overthrown by his own organization and was conquered under house arrest, and the Self-Defense Force became a government puppet and collaborating with drug dealers.

Cartel Land quotes

  • Timothy Foley: I believe what I am doing is good. And I believe what I'm standing up against is evil.

  • José Manuel 'El Doctor' Mireles: Look, we can escape the Templars. But you cannot escape the government.