Just saw this.
What are some other good movies/tv shows about the War on Drugs, particuarly around the Mexican border?
>>79810342
Traffic...
>>79810342
blunts character was such a liberal prissy bitch
>>79810342
Clear and Present Danger
It's centered around the Colombian cartels, but still drug trafficking kino.
>>79810383
Yeah she was the one in the wrong. The CIA just killing at will and pointing guns at FBI agents all over drugs is totally okay.
Zootopia
Make sure to watch the uncut version.
>>79810342
Traffic is the best but it goes for more drama and smarts and less action compared to Sicario
>>79810342
How haven't you seen Narcos yet you fucking whore.
>>79811573
>>79810342
That poster is awful
>>79811891
>when you see it
;_;
>>79810352
This movie aged so fucking horribly.
Its like a mid 80s anti-drug PSA.
>>79810986
>That was a project that, when you got involved in that material, it just took you over. And you couldn’t help but be emotionally so engaged – beyond the content of making the miniseries – with the issues, with the tragedy of it, with the social ramifications [of the human toll of the drug trade]. And the martyrdom of Camarena fit into, I believe, a preconceived story structure in many of the agents’ heads, because a lot of them had gone to Jesuit high schools or were Hispanic. So they really took off their gloves and turned the whole of the DEA into a homicide bureau with one case. They were going to get everybody and anybody involved in this [huge marijuana-growing operation, and corruption in the Mexican government], and they didn’t care where the chips fell. And when other agencies, or the White House, or the State Department objected, they paid them lip service and they didn’t stop, they just went right ahead. It was quite extraordinary to be with all of these very motivated guys who were very good and very bright and well-read and operations-oriented, who were DEA agents then, and feel their commitment to clean this up. And I say regardless of where the chips fell not just because when the trafficker who Benicio del Toro played, Caro Quintero, when he kidnapped Camarena and they started to torture him, they realized he was probably going to die, they then hired a doctor to keep him alive for 48 hours. And since he was definitely gonna die anyway, it became a kind of open season for many people in the government of Mexico to find out, how much did the DEA know about operations and where their assets were. And that’s because of two things. One is, they believed something that was not true, which is that the DEA were omniscient, that they knew everything. And so you had [Mexican] generals showing up wondering what the DEA knew about their $10 million villa in Marbella [Spain] that they had.
1/2
>>79812082
>That’s the nature of the passion that became part of [the production], all the actors, and an excellent director, Brian Gibson. That imbued everybody on that show. And it won the Emmy for Best Miniseries that year.
2/2
Cartel Land is a documentary but still cartel kino
>>79812170
Documentaries are good as well.
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>>79812246
What are some more documentary kinos like Cartel Land and Citizenfour where they feel like fictional thrillers except that everything is real?