A good theme, as one of the best foreign language film candidates for this year’s Oscar, the theme for us is "drug boom." In that era, the people in the Guajira area in northern Colombia, including the Vayu and other ethnic groups Both participated in drug smuggling and became the source of Colombia’s civil unrest and international scandals in the following decades. This film also focuses on the drug trade, tracing its modern origins, and also focuses on violence that destroys the lives of others, families, and ethnic groups. . But it avoids Hollywood-style visual impact in various ways, such as avoiding direct focus on violent scenes. Sometimes we can only see scenes after violent acts, such as bloody corpses lying in the middle of the road. Another example is the last chapter of the film. After the two families are involved in a large-scale war, the whole process is presented in a suffocating long shot.
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