The word Sicario is interpreted as a killer in the opening subtitles of the film, and according to the narrative content of the film, it is translated as a border killer in China.
The film opens with a light to heavy drum beat. The heroine, FBI agent Kate, sits in an armored vehicle in full armor and is ordered to go to Chandler, Arizona, with her teammates to rescue the kidnapped hostages. Taking this as an entry point, an adventure story from the perspective of Kate begins. When Matt and other high-level security personnel sat there for a meeting, the director used only one shot to let the audience understand that they were big people, especially Matt, who dared to wear slippers during the meeting. Brolin's portrayal of Matt's character in the first installment of the series is so brilliant, daring to read a briefing in slippers while other officials are in formal suits in a conference room, it's enough to show his aura and importance. Then Matt called Kate, who was waiting to be summoned at the back of the room, to introduce the current situation to Kate just like the mission explanation in the "Call of Duty" series of games, in fact, to our audience. From the beginning to this moment, the audience has always understood the whole thing from Kate's perspective. Villeneuve strives to create a documentary look and feel to gain a real feeling, so that the audience cannot fully understand the ins and outs of the matter from beginning to end. Operations have been shrouded in a natural "fog of war". This makes people addicted, because human beings have a natural curiosity about the unknown, so the audience is easily brought into the perspective of the heroine, and what the heroine Kate thinks and feels is exactly what the audience feels.
For Matt, from transporting Mexican drug lords to busting underpasses, he has always been at ease. It's like a veteran who has weathered countless storms accomplishing a task that couldn't be easier, and that's exactly what it is. But for the heroine of the Phoenix FBI field team, dodging a fatal shot from a terrorist at the beginning of the film has already demonstrated her excellent personal qualities. Even so, when facing the members of the special operations team led by Matt, Kate behaved like a newcomer, extremely uncomfortable with everything, full of fear and disgust for their counter-intuitive cards, and unable to blame. On the highway along the border, they shot two cars of Mexicans without asking for the reason, and they slaughtered in the tunnels. Mouth down, and even threatened to kill the two of them without hesitation if they got caught. It's enough to prove that other people, these heroines who often do these black jobs that veterans can't stand talking about morality and law all day long. The two groups actually couldn't understand each other. It's like the audience was surprised by what Matt and theirs did. By making Matt and Alessandro feel more at ease with the whole thing, the more shocking the audience will be with the heroine's perspective, the more dramatic the contrast will be. I still remember Matt coming out of the tunnel to celebrate how well the mission went so well, he acted like he was treating the whole operation as a game, a wild hunt, and came out trembling with Kate just being attacked Lisandro had a shot and she felt like Matt and they were crazy after hearing it all, and that's how the audience felt. Matt's composure is in stark contrast to Kate's fear and prudence. It's like playing a computer game. Matt is a senior officer in Call of Duty, skilled in completing various tasks, while we are recruits, trembling with fear. moving forward. This contrast accentuates Matt's personal charm, and at the same time makes the audience feel like they are on the scene of the black work done by the US government abroad.
The subtlety of Dennis is that not only does he use a two-line approach to tell the story, but he makes every line equally memorable. In addition to examining the entire action from the perspective of the heroine, the daily performance of a Mexican father and son is inserted when the possible perspective is fatigued. The son is in his youth and likes football, while his father is a very typical middle-aged man. The role of a Mexican father is particularly outstanding with the director's choreography and the efforts of the actors. Although he is a Mexican father, it makes me in China also. Seeing the shadow of his father, I think audiences in other regions should feel the same way, because many of the characteristics shown by this father belong to the characteristics of almost all middle-aged men, such as lazy 233, so this father-son interaction is particularly moving. , of course, it is also due to the efforts of the production team on the props, even including this almost hidden shot that calmly describes everything. The audience can't even feel the existence of the camera, because everything under the camera is too real and calm. As the plot progressed, everyone knew that the father was still a policeman, and they couldn't help but start to imagine how these two lines would converge.
The climax of the film is Alessandro's solo action. This part of the mission is a part of the mission that the heroine does not know about, so the audience's perspective is also cut from the heroine's perspective to Alessandro's perspective, which is the so-called The real frontier slayer's perspective, to get a glimpse of what the frontier slayer actually does. It turned out that the father of the policeman in the other line before was the correspondent bought by the drug gang in the police. The father's performance after being hijacked by Alejandro in the car is also very moving, because we see him off-screen, the most authentic feelings of facing danger and being a father. Combined with the father's previous performance, when he was still mercilessly headshot by Alejandro after begging for mercy, the audience's heart was shocked once. Then Sandro went all the way to the home of the target drug dealer. He let go of the servants who cleaned up the housework, but dealt with his wife and two children in front of the drug dealer. This kind of personality split in the last scene. It is vividly shown in the play, and the ruthlessness shown by Alejandro also makes people understand the pain of his daughter's death better. This is like the "Goblin Slayer" that just started airing in October. The Goblin Slayer in this animation is just like Border Slayer, he treats Goblin without mercy, even goblin cubs, because he knows that young Goblins will grow up when they grow up. Follow the old ways of the fathers.
When it comes to the details of the film, whenever Kate doubts the whole operation, Matt will tell a tragic story that seems to have just been made up to stop her from saying a hundred thousand whys. It's a strange feeling. It doesn't feel like a drama. On the contrary, this irrational dialogue is more real. It uses a veteran's mouth - Matt to clarify to the audience the fact that all this Absurd actions are not without a starting point, without a motive. From the top of the US government, the motivation is to control the black market business at the border so that the drug trade and its harm can be controlled. From the individuals who were drafted into the gang, the vast majority of people in this team have been harmed by drugs and their related personnel. For example, the heroine Kate is struggling with hostage incidents, while Mexican smugglers are the root cause of a series of incidents, and even the killing of Alejandro’s daughter by a drug gang is just the tip of the iceberg of the border killers’ motives for revenge. And when it comes to this, I have to mention, what exactly is a border killer. To this question, the subtitles at the beginning of the film explain that they were zealots in the Jerusalem area, hunting down the Romans who invaded their homeland. And here, the Romans who invaded their homeland refer to these smuggled Mexicans, so who hunted them? Of course Alejandro is a killer, is Matt a border killer? Is the heroine Kate a border killer? I think they all count, all those involved in the smuggling of stowaways count, and even the US government is a killer. And this is what the director Villeneuve wants to say. There is no real and complete freedom and the rule of law in the world. Fairness and morality are only built on strong safeguards. Beyond national borders, the United States strives to make the freedom, fairness, morality and rule of law that the public believes in, but there are limits and conditions, and this condition is still determined by the United States. Dominate yourself.
There is an interesting detail. Reggie, the black assistant who always cares about Kate, was very wary of the old fritters Matt before Kate set off, for fear that he would steal Kate. After Kate came back for the first time, she was so tired that she didn't want to talk because she had experienced too many events that were completely impossible for her daily tasks. At this time, Reggie was like a husband who suspected his wife was cheating. She was very disturbed and always asked Kate. Tell him the details, otherwise he won't feel at ease. At that moment, I really felt that as long as the background of the story was changed, it could become an NTR drama in a few minutes, hahahahaha.
Finally, let me say something in this self-entertaining long review. The music and the camera are a perfect fit. I personally feel that it is better than "Arrival". In the second part, it seems that all the screenwriters have been replaced. Sure enough, once Daniel's own people are withdrawn, he will be completely useless.
The overall level of this film is high, and it should be at least 8 points. The current score shows that this film is seriously underestimated.
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