Max goldberg, mubi proves that a static interview in a confined space has the potential to be just as cinematic as any hightech hollywood product. Genres documentary, international director gianfranco rosi, charles bowden. The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in ciudad juarez, mexico. Il protagonista ha ucciso centinaia di persone, e esperto in torture e rapimenti, ha lavorato per molti anni come comandante della polizia statale del chihuahua ed e stato perfino addestrato dallfbi. Kijk deze gratis volledige film in het nederlands of in. He has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and. An expert in torture and kidnapping, he was employed by mexican. The dreadful mexico drug cartels are shockingly illuminated in this striking documentary. The films subject is an anonymous ciudad juarez sicario known to have killed hundreds. In modern language, a sicario is a professional killer or a hit man.
Room 164 is a documentary film following the drug cartel hitman, ciudad juarez sicario. He has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for many years was a commander of the state police in chihuahua. He has lived in ciudad juarez and has moved freely throughout mexico and the united states. Chuck bowen, slant magazine one who knows speaks and well. In room 164 of a grubby hotel near the mexicanamerican border, a huge guy dressed in black puts a black cloth over his head to make him unrecognisable. Sicario recounts the story of his violent career to a camera while his face is obscured by a black hood in the very same hotel room he tortured his victims in. The term sicario goes back to roman palestine, where a jewish sect, the sicarii, used concealed daggers sicae in their murders of romans and their supporters. A sicario is a hit man of the mexican drug cartels, those enormous organized crime network that seemingly control the economy of. Room 164 is an almost laughably simple, aggressively drablooking film, but it packs a wallop. A hit man who killed hundreds of people was for many years a police officer. Room 164 is a oneman monologue of a documentary, 80odd minutes spent in a crummy motel suite in the company of a guy with a black mesh cloth covering his head and obscuring his identity. Variety one of the most revealing and shocking documentaries ever made about the drug trade. A subject really has to have something to say to justify this kind of film treatmentmichael rupperts hypnotic apocalyptic scenarios in collapse come to mindand.
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