Posted on 01/30/2012 2:54:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
For its 90-minute running time, "El Sicario, Room 164" plays like the scariest "60 Minutes" episode you never saw. A man, wearing a black hood, sits in a motel room in Juarez and describes his career as an enforcer for Mexico's drug cartels.
His identity is hidden because both law enforcement and drug kingpins would undoubtedly like to see him put away (or worse).
Known as El Sicario here, he was formerly involved in the kidnapping of people who owed his bosses. But kidnapping was only the beginning of his grisly duties.
Sometimes the stories involve torture, rape and murder. In fact, he says, this very motel room was the site of some of these sessions, which he then rises to re-enact as he describes them.
This would be a fascinating and horrifying story just as a piece of journalism. And writer Charles Bowden, who participated in the film, first profiled El Sicario for a Harper's magazine piece in 2009.
The movie might sound like it's barely more than an article, but it is intriguing in its minimalist style. Obviously, we are robbed of the human face here, our usual way into most movies. And except for a few shots of Mexican landscapes, the film remains inside the motel room.
As though to make up for this, the hitman holds a large notebook, in which he draws pictures, showing how a car pulls up next to another car to get a good shot at a victim, or other visual aids to his dire story line.
Director Giancarlo Rosi does very little to disguise the limitations of this situation. Many documentary filmmakers might have: dramatic reenactments, digital graphics, the kind of thing a director resorts to when he doesn't have faith in his material.
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Sixty Minutes is an appendage of the DNC. If they are running scary stories about Mexico...it’s because, in the end, they have found a way of blaming the violence on Repubicans.
Count of it.
Haven’t watched that program in thirty years...remeber, they used forged documents to try and take Bush out.
Sixty Minutes is an appendage of the DNC. If they are running scary stories about Mexico...it’s because, in the end, they have found a way of blaming the violence on Repubicans.
Count on it.
Haven’t watched that program in thirty years...remeber, they used forged documents to try and take Bush out.
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