Film “Sicario”: war against the cartel – Tagesspiegel

01/10/2015 17:38 clock By Christian Schröder <- inteaserpicposition: 1 -> <- self.position:! 1 -> <- classid: hcf center -> <- position: center -> <- inisprint: false -> <- inhaspic: true ->

“Sicario” is in German ” assassins “. In the new film by Denis Villeneuve, the FBI is fighting against the Mexican drug cartels. The violence can not be stopped.

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The US lead since 40 years a war against drugs, so begins “Sicario” with a battle scene. Of a kind Feldherrnhügel down, the view over a residential complex in the shimmering desert of Arizona. A police vehicle rammed the main building, FBI people storm the premises, exploded a hidden bomb, torn body parts flying across the screen. The house is a trap. And a grave. In the walls of the bodies of murdered hostages stuck – they resemble the people who suffocated during volcanic eruption at Pompeii and were mummified

violence sometimes occurs with the power of a natural event.. You can not stop them, just watching. That is a message of ambitious film by Denis Villeneuve, which widens the social panorama from Thriller. Idealism leads to disillusionment. The Idealist is the FBI agent Kate (Emily Blunt). She joins an international task force in order “to get those who are responsible for what happened in the house.” Your boss calls it “fighter” and she actually still believes that the police can not win the fight against the drug cartels

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The fight against drug cartels is an end in itself of violence

For her new colleagues on the other hand, among them many Afghanistan veterans, the fight is an end in itself , to make outside the law. The leader Graver (Josh Brolin) is a cynical macho Texan who appears to meetings in flip-flops. At callousness he is (Benicio Del Toro) exceeded even the lone Alejandro, who taught Kate about dealing with the cartels: “You want to know how clockwork? For now, you should pay attention to the time “

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Villeneuve works precisely, into the abyss of policing he looks like the inside of a clockwork. The job performs the special unit on the other side of the Mexican border, according to Juárez. An imprisoned boss to be brought into the United States and interrogated there.

Accompanied by metallic dräuender music, the camera bird’s-eye view of the dusty, overgrown with motley concrete buildings city approaches, hovering over the SUVs of American mercenaries driving with a frantic pace to prison, flanked by Mexican military vehicles with machine guns sported. Finally – the border guards on the way back is almost achieved – is shot, and the camera is in the middle of the turmoil. A stunning sequence full of strength and poetry

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The police, what they can do. They are killer – “Sicario” is in German: contract killers. Clear is also why the always off acting Alejandro belongs to the group. He swore no oath of office, but has mastered the techniques of torture Guantanamo. Can we commit crimes to chase criminals? “Sicario” provides moral issues and shows the dilemma of nihilistic investigators who no longer hope for the success of their work. Unfortunately, the film in the final loses its coolness and distance when he approaches the drug sponsors and descends into a tunnel in the Hellmouth.

In 20 cinemas in Berlin; OV in the Cinestar Sony Center and Karli, subtitles in Babylon Kreuzberg, Hackesche Hofe, International, Kulturbrauerei and Odeon

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