{"id":8580,"date":"2015-10-06T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:49:04","slug":"cartel-corner-2-drug-war-horrors-come-to-life-in-movie-sicario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/06\/cartel-corner-2-drug-war-horrors-come-to-life-in-movie-sicario\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cartel Corner #2: Drug War Horrors Come to Life in movie Sicario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>I recently saw this movie and while I was planning on doing my own review, after coming across this article, I thought it much more educational than just another blogger movie review.-SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sicario (2015 Movie - Emily Blunt) - Official Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7XLQ1bkSLDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Make no mistake; the new thriller in theaters called <strong><em>Sicario<\/em><\/strong> is no documentary-style production of the drug war in Mexico. It\u2019s a movie like any other, with its exaggerations and stylistic decisions. But what makes <em>Sicario<\/em> one of the better representations of the reality that is cartel violence on both sides of the border is that it\u2019s accurate enough to be believable\u2014even to those well-versed in the tiniest details of this endless war.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, <em>Sicario<\/em> has its uneven points and technical errors and irregularities. But the acting is outstanding, the plotline is interesting with a few well-placed reveals, and the action scenes appear just when things start getting too slow.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s opening scene takes place in Chandler, Arizona\u2014an interesting choice for the intense and stomach-churning moments that follow, as this was the site of the first known cartel-related beheading in the US in 2010. FBI Special Agent Kate Macer is the head of an anti-kidnapping unit in Phoenix, and as a result of the carnage she witnesses in the opening scene, she volunteers for a shadowy interagency task force whose mission is to find the ultimate cartel leader responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/texas\/2015\/10\/06\/drug-war-horrors-complexities-come-grisly-life-sicario\/\"> Breitbart-Texas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw this movie and while I was planning on doing my own review, after coming across this article, I thought it much more educational than just another blogger movie review.-SF Make no mistake; the new thriller in theaters called Sicario is no documentary-style production of the drug war in Mexico. It\u2019s a movie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2351,13,74,2039,2352],"tags":[2405,2406,2407,2408,2409],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}