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When it comes to anti-drug themes, fans of American dramas will think of...
Drug lord
The few words in the news were reduced to bloody confrontation by the camera, and the struggle between the anti-narcotics police and the drug lord has long gone beyond the right and evil...
Complex human nature is often more trembling than bloody wind!
Classics of similar themes, and this movie--
Border killer
Sicario
At the end of June, [Border Killer 2: Frontier Fighter] was released in North America.
Many action movie fans should not be able to sit still!
Through the trailer, it can be clearly seen that the plot of the sequel is more intense than [Border Killer], with a lot of gun battles, explosions, and chases...
But the detective, I prefer the realism and calmness of [Border Killer]!
The story of [Border Killer] takes place on the US/Mexico border . The environment here resembles man and nature, and the characters are like tigers and wolves...
As an FBI agent, the heroine Kate is responsible for border security.
She and her team members encircled the hidden drug dealers, but after seeing the big world, she was obviously shocked by the small place...
As soon as the door was opened, a drug dealer who was not afraid of death was confronted with a gun.
Inadvertently also found a large number of corpses hidden in the house ...
(The screen does not have a drop of blood, but it is extremely strange and terrifying)
When I thought that the team could be recovered after this torture, the bomb at the drug dealer’s den was detonated again, and half of the team was killed directly...
Just now, I was still a full-bodied person, and there was only one hand left in an instant!
In the opening 7 minutes, [Border Killer] presented a magical and cruel world.
The aerial footage skimmed across the deserts and houses along the US-Mexico border...
If the BBC came to shoot, it would be a foreign scenery, but in fact, every window may hide desperadoes, and they can fight at any time!
It is difficult for a civilized society to imagine such a wild land...
Obviously there is only a border, but one side of the United States is a comfortable and comfortable residential area, and the other side is always full of gunfire.
After exiting the gate, the traffic flowed to the United States...
Only this group of people on the anti-drug task are going against the current!
[Border Killer] is the first part of the screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's Border Trilogy.
Before the detective, I also recommended the other two of the trilogy, the bitter [Hunting the Wind River Valley] and the hot [Going Through Water and Fire]...
The living environment described by Sheridan is remote, blocked, out of order...
Those who have seen [Hunting the Wind River Valley] must have fresh memories of the endless white snow in Wyoming winter, and the beautiful mood is full of loneliness and depression.
The murder of the young girl untied the disconnect between her own land and modern society.
And the desperate blood of [Going Through Water and Fire] shows the scorching heat of Texas, and the transpiring land is about to melt the people on the verge of death...
In order to redeem the land, the brothers spared their lives and robbed the bank!
You may be wondering:
[Hunting the Furious Wind River Valley] and [Going Through Water and Fire] are not describing the border?
The "Border Trilogy" does not mean that the story takes place on the border...
Rather, these three works, started by [Border Killer], portray the same "marginal" characters and stories with different backgrounds .
In [Border Killer] young Kate is the center...
And the vicissitudes of killer Alessandro is the marginalized figure.
Alessandro was once a drug undercover agent...
His wife and daughter were killed because of his identity, and this time he and Kate went to Mexico to hunt down the drug lords to avenge their personal revenge.
Kate entered Mexico for the first time with a newcomer's perspective, so Alessandro is quite a bit of a tiger returning to the mountain!
When the black convoy of U.S. special forces drove into Mexico, he excitedly gave a welcome speech to the bewildered Kate...
The wildness of being familiar with the road and returning to the mountains and forests is beyond words.
Kate looked at the corpse lynched by the gang in surprise...
Alessandro is like an enthusiastic tour guide, explaining the local bloody customs to rookies.
Two people, one old and one young, seem to come from two worlds.
Kate, who is taught by law and order , maintains a "procedural" approach to case handling.
Faced with the money laundering of drug lords, her idea is to collect evidence and conduct a public trial on the drug gang...
In the eyes of Alessandro, this is farting!
The Mexican drug trafficking network has no legal reason. Procedural lawsuits are a waste of hunting opportunities and are meaningless to the immediate problem.
If you want to control the drug lords, you must bypass the shackles of the law...
Special forces loaded with live ammunition into Mexico, searched along the highway regardless of the reason, and fought to see who was suspicious!
The newcomer Kate was shocked.
In order to catch the suspect, Alessandro even used her beauty to fish without discussing with Kate...
Kate, who hadn't been in love for a long time, thought it was an affair, but almost died in the hands of the enemy when she didn't realize it...
(Still flirting in the first second, then start fighting in the second)
Kate didn’t save her life until Alessandro came to the rescue...
(Yes, it's your uncle Punishment cameo)
At the critical moment, the two broke out in a fateful conflict:
Alessandro wants to find a drug lord alone and avenge his wife's murder...
Kate still maintained the style of following the rules and asked Alessandro to turn in the informant and follow the instructions.
Because of this, the two men were at a stalemate!
On the surface, it looks like a confrontation between Kate and Alessandro's ideas, but the film reveals the truth in the details:
Anti-drug at the border is just an appeasement policy under the government's decision!
Kate filed a lawsuit...
The leader told her that there have been several prosecutions against drug cartels, but can you see that the environment here has improved?
Kate shook her head helplessly...
When the United States far away from the border is proud of a society under the rule of law...
The US-Mexico border is still a place outside the law. The delusion of using judicial games to solve desperadoes is tantamount to the embarrassment of a talented soldier.
So to contain drug trafficking forces has become the government's goal...
The US government doesn't care about drugs, they just require the drug trafficking system to be in an order that it can control.
Kate’s participation is just a procedure. The real protagonist is the killer Alessandro who works for the Colombian drug cartel...
The most creepy passage in the film is revenge!
The drug lord’s family is eating at the table...
Alessandro asked them to continue eating, while he sat at the table with a gun and looked at them, the atmosphere was extremely depressed.
Many people are entangled with Alessandro's "kill or not" ...
Without killing, the mission and revenge have failed.
Killing, then he is just like the drug lords said, under the skin of law and order, he is doing murders just like drug cartels.
What to choose, I won’t be spoiled by the Inspector...
However, [Border Killer] is showing realistic violence and terror through characters who have become "marginal" because of the "border" .
Emily Blunt, who plays Kate , agreed that this is a good work when she received the script of [Border Killer]...
But she did not immediately take over the role, she said:
"This movie can't be picked up, it's too dark, I'm a mother now!"
Just as the film was suppressed to the end of suffocation, Alessandro held a gun against Kate's throat and asked her to sign to prove the legality of the action.
Kate resisted the repression and signed, in exchange for Alessandro's taunt:
At the border, Alessandro, who had lost his wife and daughter, was forcibly cut off the softness and kindness of human nature, leaving only a killing lone wolf.
He said that Kate reminded him of his daughter...
Looking at the ridicule of Kate from this, perhaps Alessandro also wanted to give Kate a way out of innocence.
When watching Sheridan’s Border Trilogy, the Inspector I always think of Liu Cixin’s famous line in [Santi] from time to time:
"Lost humanity, lose a lot, lose animality, lose everything..."
In the novel, mankind faces the danger of genocide.
But from the border trilogy, these alienated characters are all forced to the corner by the dangerous environment, and finally the hysterical eruption...
They bypassed human nature and survived, but they were destroyed by the exposure of animality!
Just like the desperate accusation of the murderer in [Hunting the Wind River Valley]:
The murderer should not justify himself, but shouldn't this also reveal the potential voice of [Border Killer] Alexandro...
Who should pay for such a tragedy?
People often say...
There is a negligent father in Taylor Sheridan’s story:
Alessandro, who was involved in the murder of his daughter because of his undercover status, and Howard, who threw down his son and robbed the bank in order to redeem the land...
There is also a police detective played by Hawkeye, busy with work and lost her daughter.
They were supposed to be anti-drug heroes, hardworking farmers, and law enforcement officers.
But in the end they all became marginal figures who deviated from law and order and used violence to fight injustice, even in exchange for tragic destruction...
Speaking of this, the spearhead of the trilogy is still directed at the US government.
In the beginning, we all believed in the rule of law like Kate, but in the end we all shed helpless tears like her...
And these negligent fathers may be the wrong use of power!
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