Drugs, an impossible war

Alexis 2022-03-15 09:01:03

There are too many characters and too many clues in "Drug Network". I didn't understand it the first time, but I thought it was fine the second time. Unlike most anti-drug films, there is no bright ending, no hero will win, and in the battle with drugs In war, there are winners and losers, and they are not equal. The work is divided into three main lines, each using three different tones. The first story is set in the city of Tijuana, Mexico. The depressed policeman who is a bit like a yellow man who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor is the core of the story. Javier is a powerless little policeman with the power of a general. He had to give in. Unexpectedly, the general turned out to be a member of a drug syndicate. Javier's colleague decided to report the general, but he was killed. It could be seen that the general's connections were very wide, so Javier had to choose to fight with the American police. Cooperating, exposing the general, as a Mexican police officer, protecting ordinary citizens of Mexico by selling intelligence to the American police, it has to be ironic. The second story is the city of San Diego in the United States. Later, I checked the map and found out that although San Diego and Tijuana belong to different countries, they are two adjacent cities. San Diego is considered to be the highest level of drug distribution. Point, because of the report of the tainted witness, the big drug dealer was arrested, and the wife of the big drug dealer, an ordinary housewife, never knew that she was in such an environment, and she started to feel helpless. Later, in order to rescue her husband, she also became A black man who sells drugs and kills people. This main line is the most tragic. The police are dead, the tainted witnesses are dead, the subordinates of the big drug dealers are also killed, and the big drug dealers are acquitted. Not hopeless. In the third story, the protagonist is the chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and he is also an ordinary father. His daughter's drug addiction makes him less and less confident in the work of the Drug Enforcement Administration. The final conclusion is that it is impossible to achieve an absolute victory against drugs, because family and relatives are more important. In the United States, drugs have penetrated into every corner and are closely related to every family. The three main lines are drug producers (Mexico's drug syndicate), dealers (Santiago's big drug dealer), and consumers (Daughter of the Drug Enforcement Commissioner), revealing the effects of drugs on all classes from different levels. The narrative structure of the story is good, but the story is too complicated to be like a movie. Don't watch such a movie if you are very depressed.

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  • Coleman 2022-04-20 09:01:21

    The old man and the Jones family went into battle together... The segmented narrative of the three backgrounds and the open-ended ending are impressive. Personally, I feel that the things expressed are a little messy, the theme has not been sublimated, and drug trafficking and anti-drug will always be entangled In one place, should we save some people or give up some people~

  • Trystan 2022-03-23 09:01:28

    Soderbergh's level is really average, and the branch is too unthemed. Douglas was also useless, and the reason for his final refusal to appoint is also unreasonable. The most disgusting thing is, did the fuck Douglas hook up with Zeta Jones because of this movie? fuck your mom

Traffic quotes

  • Robert Wakefield: [1:29:46] What are your policies towards treatment of addiction?

    General Salazar: Treatment of addiction? Addicts treat themselves. They overdose and then there's one less to worry about.

  • [Carlos has just had Arnie killed]

    Helena Ayala: [2:16:41] Who was that?

    Carlos Ayala: Oh that was Arnie. He can't make it to the barbecue.