Sicario
"You saw things you shouldn't have seen."
Sicario is a dark and gripping piece of realism that masterfully builds tension as it progresses. Thrown right in the middle of the war on drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico via <PERSON> (the starry-eyed fbi agent presented as our central protagonist), we follow the shady operations of an interagency task force deployed to disrupt the operation of a cartel. 306
The movie's universe is cold and unforgiving. From corpses hidden in a stash-house to mutilated bodies strung up from overpasses, this is a world of antiheroes tangled in a web of deceit and meaningless violence. The film which can be seen as an implicit diatribe against the drug trade as a whole, paints everyone involved (be they the C.I.A or the cartel) in stark colours and strips them down to their consequences: the victims. It leaves us with the nihilistic conclusion that the war is here to stay and the suffering with it.
The great performances from the main cast, <PERSON>’s expert directing, <PERSON> symbolic use of shadow and light combined with <PERSON> sinister and pulsing score elevates <PERSON> tight screenplay to a cinematic masterclass that leaves the viewer transfixed. 549