In the dark, the movie begins with the evil wolf attacking the tiger. The black screen subtitles give the meaning of "Sicario", and the last sentence says: "Sicario" in Mexico means "Hitman"-professional killer. The film sets an extremely heavy background for this killer with a special title: the Mexican hinterland and drug smuggling. Canadian director: Dennis Villeneuve once said that when someone gave him the script of this movie, he told him that this is the story you have been looking for, and it turns out that what the person said was right. Dennis said that this movie is actually more about war than Mexico and drugs. Under the increasingly arrogant and violent suppression, the people became more and more silent, which made him feel more necessary to face this fear. In his favorite works in the past, whether it is "Prisoner", "Rivals", or "Scorched Earth", he often said that "fear" is his source of inspiration. And this time the story process is like the sentence in the movie poster: Go deeper and deeper in the dark, and the truth you get will become darker and darker. The extremes and challenges this time are not just as simple as walking on the border between the United States and Mexico. It is not just that the borders of the country are broken, but also the legal borders are challenged, and even the inner principles are trampled. . From another North American promotional poster, you can clearly get the tone of the film. The FBI special agent Kate, played by Emily Blunt, was a beginning in the development of the story, but afterwards she was caught in the mystery of being unable to counterattack by using her justice and integrity. Everything about her: the way of words and deeds, the principles of doing things, and the bottom line of people have been ignored or even overturned one by one. However, she is the key background element in this quietly unfolding war on the border between the United States and Mexico. With her joining, the professional killer: Alejandro, played by Benicio del Toro, has plenty of room to play. And the mission commander played by Josh Brolin: Matt is like a very old and cunning fox. He is used to seeing such desperadoes and simple agents. He just takes advantage of both sides calmly, and then gives others. The reason that is difficult to refuse, allowing others to help him achieve the ultimate goal, of course, is also the common goal of everyone-to get rid of the drug lord leader in the hinterland of Mexico. This kind of anti-drug story, in the director: Dennis. , Original music: John Johnson, with the outstanding dedication of three masters, the film can be regarded as a masterpiece of art. Director Dennis's best inner expressions: depression, heaviness, and gloom. And this time without the assistance of so many indoor lighting in "The Enemy", and the chase of so much urgency in "The Prisoner". In "Border Killer", Dennis is more focused on grasping the deep tone of the film, piercing the viewer's heart with a degree of relaxation, from the sadness and fright at the beginning, to the constant conflicts at the end, and finally to the bloody storm. The silence before. The whole conveys an inner state of being patient with inner waves, steady and steady, and approaching the bottomless abyss step by step. The deep soundtrack in several big scenes in the film is like a calming song to control the audience's breathing and heartbeat. Different types of soundtracks such as accent drums, euphonium, cello, etc. appear in different heavyweight scenes in the film, but the tone and rhythm of the soundtrack are uniformly monotonous and repetitive. The viewer's heart rate slows down, breathing slows down, and the pupils can't help but feel the dilation of the pupils, and a heart is about to hang in the eyes of the throat. The creation of the atmosphere is extremely in place. And from the white sand where the film came up, there was a lifeless atmosphere of battlefield. And the subsequent aerial images of the barren land of Mexico, the sparse thorns and green plants in the desert, are full of tingling feelings. The continuous aerial editing is not only not boring, but from the sand to the rich cities. Crossing the border, and then to the slum mountain area, the ash crushes a slum residential area, which is even more breathtaking. Under such a scene, it is really amazing to take on the bridge section of the team to take hostages on guard. Under the panoramic view of the barren landscape of Mexico, five military black Chevrolets, armed with firepower, set off in line. All the way close, every turn, every overtaking, like an iron chain, completely passed, the distance never changed, until entering the border checkpoint. After driving in, you can see more support from the local police. Several armed policemen with live ammunition stood on the off-road police vehicle. Three vehicles in the front were open, and three vehicles in the back were broken. Five black Chevrolets were wrapped in the middle, and the convoy lengthened instantly. Doubled, but the purge is orderly, still dense and continuous. At this time, Alejandro sitting in the car said, welcome to here. Signs of mutilated corpses hanging on the bridge head and missing women all over the wall began to appear in the camera. Then, the convoy passed through the iron gate at full speed and entered a base. The convoy stopped and took over the hostages covered in black cloth, and the whole crew quickly pulled out and returned. Without a trace of slack, the police car escorted back and forth to the front and back of the police car. However, on the way back, there are four police cars in the front and back, and there are still parallel escort cars in the parallel lanes. Team (of course there may also be potential dangers). The plot of this series of footage editing is estimated to be just one sentence: carefully extract and escort the hostages. And Kate, who came to Mexico on the first day of the film, followed the brigade and joined the action blankly. It was also from here that Kate realized that the danger here, the illegality here is different from here. After that, as Alejandro expected, the spies emerged from the local police, and the team members also fought for a short time outside the border checkpoint with the local drug dealers. Fortunately, there was no danger. If at the beginning of the film, the audience's understanding of the Mexican hinterland in the background and the drug police's handling of the case is only a conceptual cognition. After this series of plots have developed, every audience is believed to have been severely beaten. This clip and the link to the camera are wonderful. After watching countless plots of drag racing, speeding, and crashing, you will find that you can have a different kind of enjoyment and excitement. This kind of team work, clean processing, is amazing and perfect. And how can there be no more surprises in the film under the control of the master Roger Diggins. If you say that a photographer who can take beautiful scenery can be regarded as a good photographer, then it can make beautiful scenery flow in the picture, and can also be connected with the theme of the plot, and convey a deeper meaning, it is the level of a master photographer. Before the final climax of the film, from sunset to nightfall, the team sneaked into the bridge section of the cave on the border. From the commando team alighting from the carriage, the sunset scenery is breathtakingly beautiful against the background of the border Yimapingchuan. The next bloody battle is about to be staged here, and this peace makes people even more calm and determined. In the setting sun, a bright red, a group of people ready to go gradually turned into silhouettes, in the freeze-frame picture, slowly walking down the hillside from the high ground. The composition of the picture is half of the colorful clouds and half of the silhouette of the hill, just so that the soldiers in it can complete the silhouette from walking in the sunset to gradually being buried in the hill, blending with the darkness, and disappearing into the dark ravine below. . It also indicates that the plot of the film will enter a darker abyss. And then, the mode of night vision goggles is naturally connected. Without any abrupt, black-and-white thermal images, rough green night vision images, the team moved among the mountains, and finally entered the cave. The captain gave the command to lift the weapon ban, and good luck to everyone. Since entering the hole, the danger is extremely dangerous, and the team members can judge and deal with it by themselves. In the shot, the hole shows the blue sky, and the head of the town should be Alejandro. He holds a submachine gun in his right hand, and pulls a saber from his leg with his left hand, but the person never stops moving forward, when the body moves from the center of the camera to the left side. When I was backlit, I only saw the silhouette of a short knife in the center of the picture. The atmosphere is almost frozen, such a small knife mold The formula, comparable to the first-person perspective of Resident Evil, is several times more shocking. This film is relying on each of these solid shots to give the audience an unspeakable impact. Staring at the big screen intently throughout the process, waiting for the next screen to appear. Even if this film is said to be a "show off technique in shooting", it is also due to its strength. If such a shooting technique is to cover up the weakness of the plot, it depends on the angle from which it is said. The plot setting and several themes of the film are actually in a few sentences of dialogue between the protagonists, which is simple and clear. Alejandro said, you America will not understand what we are doing. But in the end you will understand that we are doing the right thing. Alejandro is the one who never talks much. For him, it's not just performing tasks, but also private grudges. If you don't achieve your goals, you will never give up. At the beginning of the story, the female FBI team leader Kate is easy to feel like "Hunting Ben. The role played by Jessica in Bin Laden is the same as a female justice leader. And soon you will find that they are fundamentally different. Kate was the one who was added to the team, not the one who controlled the mission and the scene. In the interview, Emily mentioned that Kate wanted to earn her own face many times, that is, her sense of existence, but it was all in vain. All her justice and lawful behaviors turned into stupid exposure behaviors, which put herself in a dilemma. . From the first day when she returned from the hostage collection team, she began to beg for cigarettes, and then took out a box of new cigarettes from time to time to unpack. Until the last day, she still stood on the balcony and smoked, sometimes trembling, sometimes shocked. And Matt is actually more like a behind-the-scenes man who reaps the benefits of the fisherman. He can see clearly how to control an angry wolf and how to use a simple lamb to achieve the ultimate goal of annihilating the head of drug dealers. He doesn't judge right or wrong easily, and his goal is clear, no wonder. He doesn't have to personally interrogate the hostages like the protagonist in the "Strategic Secret Service", but someone can't wait to pull off the hostage and help him interrogate clues, but he is happily watching the misfortune. Josh Brolin, who played Matt, once said: "This movie is about the secrets of people’s hearts. What you have to do is grab everyone’s secrets and use them for yourself. It’s anxious and annoying. It’s easy to get lost in it." These three protagonists form a stable triangle. At the top is the coordinator Matt, and the wolf Alejandro sits at the bottom left to help him bite the prey. At the bottom right, there is the pure Kate, who uses the FBI's identity to make his actions unauthorised. This way of doing things, it’s no wonder that his setting is a full film of Easy Emperor, wearing flip-flops with high-level meetings, seeing the hostages being trimmed, chewing gum, before the final act, confirm that the news is true, immediately prepare to act, no worry The worries of success or failure. For him, if he fails in these three days, he will succeed, because someone is more anxious than him, and hopes to achieve what he wants in these three days. In the film, a Mexican family branch story is interspersed from the beginning. An ordinary Mexican policeman, his wife prepares breakfast every day. After eating, he sends his son to the football field. Long grab by his bed. Three days later, the mother did not wait for her husband's return. In the morning, she brought her child to the court. Before the child kicked the door, explosions and gunshots continued to sound in her ears. Everyone stopped, looked into the distance, and paused for a few seconds. , The children continued to play football, only the mother was still looking into the distance, slowly retracting her gaze. What is portrayed here may be the silent majority mentioned in the director's previous interview. For their lives, they have no more choices, only for their families, there is no right or wrong, only survival. And the plot here and the director's treatment, I believe it also reveals the theme of the whole film. This is not just a story on the anti-drug battlefield, not just a revenge of personal grievances, and not just an unscrupulous bandit. What's more, it makes us think about whom we are fighting for, for whom we cross borders, and for whom we abandon principles. The drug-trafficking police are for wives and children, and the professional killers' revenge is for wives and children, and the whole operation itself is also for more wives not to have their heads cut off, and their daughters will not be sent for gang rape. Under such a purpose, it is not justice that is compromising, but humanity is compromising. The person who violated the law was questioned by the system, but he did what he couldn't do under the conventional system. He killed the drug lord who had dinner with his family every day but killed other people's wives and children every day. Even if Kate is resentful, raising the gun, it is difficult to pull the trigger and shoot him, because as he said earlier: in the end, you will understand. Perhaps, at the moment when he lost his family, Alejandro has transformed into a wild wolf. In this tiger-wolf land, he has only prey in his eyes and nothing else. As director Dennis said, this film is about choice. Some people chose to desperate, some people chose to face the reality, some people chose the end result
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