The border between the United States and Mexico is a gray area and a haven for drug trafficking organizations. It is full of bloody, slaughtered, kidnapped, money-laundering and other dirty transactions. A group of armed groups completely ignore the law, and even the local government has nothing to do. Default to their nonsense.
The film "Border Slayer" is about an alliance organized by the FBI and special forces, and a repressive war against drug-trafficking armed groups. The appearance of the film is to show the cruelty, violence, cunning and harm to society of armed organizations , but in essence it is to explore the procedural justice of the law and whether the boundaries of the law should be broken in certain circumstances.
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director villeneuve
This film is directed by the well-known director Denis Villeneuve . He had such excellent suspense films as "Scorched Earth" and "The Enemy" before shooting. His films always use "slow" to create a In an atmosphere of depression and fear, he told a simple story in a restrained rhythm, and the extra space other than the story was to express his technique of camera language.
"Border Slayer" was a turning point in his film journey. Villeneuve is a director of high-quality production films. Almost many films have been nominated by various film festivals. After shooting this film, he began to explore science fiction films. After that, his "Arrival" won 149 international film awards,
"Blade Runner 2049", which was taken over last year, has been praised by more than 100 official media. "Blade Runner" is a myth created by Ridley Scott in the history of science fiction in 1982, and its classic level is second only to Kubrick. "A Space Odyssey 2001", the reason why the producers are assured to hand over such an important reboot movie to Villeneuve is the greatest recognition of his film strength.
"Border Slayer" is a film with a strong personal touch that Villeneuve explored in the interval between commercial films and art films. This is not a commercial film in the pure sense. The director seems to seek artistic balance in commercial films. Art films Always use "slow" to express the emotions of the characters and the oppression of the environment, whether it is Li Cangdong's films or Kim Ki-deok's silent films,
They all understood the essence of "slow" . Slow does not mean that the plot is thin, but that there are many detailed close-ups. Villeneuve uses this "slow" very modestly. For example, every time he enters a fast-paced shootout, Slow-motion close-ups and multi-angle switching will alternately appear. It is precisely because of this complex transformation that it creates a suffocating sense of depression, which makes people nervous and fearful.
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Underground Tunnel Battle
Let's analyze the battle in the underground tunnel. The whole scene is carried out in a dark and narrow space. The whole process is from two perspectives. The display of God's perspective is a very urgent atmosphere, and the perspective of the heroine Kate is the observer's perspective. Identity is carried out slowly. When entering slow motion again, the audience is always worried about many unseen things happening in the whole scene, and when switching to a global perspective, they are worried about the heroine.
The entire black-and-white environment observed through night vision goggles in the first half is not only a realistic representation of the battlefield, but also a creation of a depressing environment, which is the "slow" camera language that the director is good at.
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disagreement
This small team is composed of personnel from different agencies, and the differences between them are quite large. The female protagonist is a federal investigator appointed by the CIA to assist the team in anti-drug investigation. Sex; Alejandro is nominally the team's strategic advisor, but is actually a seasoned killer living in this gray area, which is the border killer as the title refers to; Matt belongs to the team's leader and is an intelligence agent , united the entire special forces.
I remember the most profound sentence in the film: "We didn't cross the line, but they moved the line ." The subtext is that this group of drug dealers who ignore the law have changed the rules of the game here. It is useless to act according to the limits of the law. Because you act in accordance with the law, if you hesitate a little, you will be shot in the head by those vicious drug dealers, or seized for interrogation, and then escaped by their legal loopholes. Take those money launderers, for example, they launder $9,000 every day. For five years, even if they were arrested, they could not be sanctioned due to lack of evidence.
Therefore, the strategic advisor of the film is very aware of the actions of these people, because his wife and daughter were brutally murdered by these scumbags. The arrangement of this character was black to the end from beginning to end. He chose to govern this place with violence, because the law It's always pale here,
The heroine and they have always lived in a world full of order. Coming here is like breaking into a strange world, a world that is difficult to accept because the rules and order have changed here. This is a world where no one will rigidly follow the law, because It is difficult for those who follow the law to survive, and those who are beheaded are those who live by the law.
This is like a battlefield, and there is no need for legal constraints on the battlefield, only to be eliminated or eliminated . Once procedural justice is used to sanction them, it will only increase the life cost of governance, because the game is unfair from the beginning. Those criminals have the right to kill the police at any time, but the police cannot take the initiative to shoot and are always passive. The defense will only sacrifice more innocent people, because their crimes have continued, and the countless moldy corpses in the basement are their unscrupulousness towards the police.
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The transformation of the heroine
The heroine has resisted the whole team from the very beginning. He believes that those special forces are basically ignorant of the law. In fact, ordinary laws are invalid for the intelligence bureau, because their work is essentially invading other people's privacy, and there are some inside them. Contractual Intelligence Act.
The film has always used the heroine's perspective to make a choice for the audience. Is procedural justice more important, or is it important to effectively punish real crimes? And the heroine's resistance has been increasing until Alessandro killed the poison with his own hands. After Xiao Xiao's family, after forcing her to sign a legal report, she finally changed and accepted the cross-border incident made by the strategic consultant. After the strategic consultant turned around, she did not fire the assembled gun in the end, which is exactly what she did in Law and Justice The choice made between, because without this group of non-procedural sanctions, this soil will never be able to nourish its people in peace.
In the end, the gunshots sounded on the US-Mexico border. It seems that the war will never end. They are not trying to eliminate drug lords, but to control drug lords. A relatively orderly environment will be established here, because 200,000 drug addicts cannot be eliminated . There is no pure land, only evil land that can be controlled.
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