With the United States and Mexico as the background, the three main lines are interspersed in an orderly manner.
The American judge uses a blue filter, and the picture is cold, dark and humid. The Mexican police are yellow filters, hot, violent and dry. The anti-narcotics police have a more normal tone.
The Mexican police worked for the general. After discovering that the general was colluding with the local gang, one of them wanted to sell the news and was killed, and the other told the US Drug Enforcement Administration about the news. After the general was executed, he disclosed government corruption to the media. (Yellow filter)
Two U.S. anti-narcotics police officers arrested a drug dealer in an operation as a tainted witness to accuse the big drug lords. After the drug lord was in jail, his wife took over his drug business and hired killers to assassinate witnesses. The first assassination failed. One of the anti-narcotics policemen died tragically. The second succeeded, the drug lord was acquitted in court.
The judge in charge of the anti-drug plan faced pressure from many sources, and then found out that his daughter was taking drugs and having fun with his friends. After escaping from the forced rehabilitation center, the judge finally collapsed and finally chose to resign and accompany her daughter to the forced rehabilitation center. (Blue filter)
In Mexico, as a seller, the police and bandits colluded, kidnapped and murdered, smuggled drugs, and made huge profits. The United States is the buyer, and drug addicts are getting younger. There is a sentence in the film that is very impressive. The judge's daughter said when she first entered the rehabilitation center, I don't drink, I take drugs. At my age, medicine is better than alcohol. The judge's wife's attitude of condoning and sheltering when the judge discovered that her daughter was taking drugs also reflected the prevalence of youth drug use in the United States at that time.
As a classicist style film, the film tells only the story in a straightforward manner, without subjective emotions, allowing the audience to make their own judgments. Large-scale use of medium and close shots to portray characters, all characters are full of contradictions to make them closer to life. The overall rhythm is very fast, all the branch plots are advancing at the same time, and each story seems to be independent and does not interfere with each other. Drugs are used as a central point to unfold a net that entangles each character as a part of it.
The director of the ending of each story seems to give seeds of hope. The judge accompanied his daughter to give up drugs, the anti-narcotics police successfully installed the wiretap into the home of the big drug lord, and the general was executed. But we know that all this is just a placebo shot. The judge’s daughter has already been injecting heroin, and it is almost impossible to quit. The wiretap will be checked during regular inspections by the drug lords. The general is dead, so another gang that competes with him will grow rapidly.
The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh in 2000. To this day, high school students in the United States use drugs, and some areas where drugs are rampant have legalized marijuana for medical use. The Mexican people live in the shadow of gangs, and the death rate remains high.
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