Mary Louise Eklund

Tag: Sicario

  • Tuesday Thoughts – Sicario

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    The required US legal disclaimer: All images are the property of their owners I reproduce them here under the Fair Use Doctrine of the copyright law for commentary and critique The required US legal disclaimer: All images are the property of their owners I reproduce them here under the Fair Use Doctrine of the copyright law for commentary and critique

    This is a film from 2015 but I just watched it a few weeks ago. It’s about an FBI who winds up on a Mexican drug cartel task force. Her morals are tested much as the subjects in the real life documentary Cartelland‘s were.  Questions of when do the ends justify the means? Is it more important to get justice or revenge?  What compromises in your personal moral code are acceptable to do your job?  What principles do you hold higher than your life?  Can you trust someone whose answers differ from yours to these questions? When do two wrongs make a right? Do they ever?

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