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Description: El Sicario is a specialist in kidnappings, torture, and contract killings. For a number of years, he was a unit commander with the Mexican state police and he even completed training with the FBI. While working for Mexican drugs cartels over the course of 20 years, he has killed hundreds of people, but has never been apprehended. At present, he is in hiding and there is a 250,000 dollar reward on his head. Despite this, he has decided to tell his story to the camera of Italian documentary-maker Gianfranco Rosi. With his face covered, the one and only protagonist of Rosi's chilling film describes how the Mexican drugs mafia opera ... (more)

Release date: 28 December 2011

Tags: Drugs (2), Mexico (2), Hitman (2), Violence (1), Kill (1), Cartels (1)

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"23.3. Ahdistavan likainen. Rosin dokumentissa käydään - ilmeisistä syistä - nimettömäksi jäävän sicarion muistoja elämästään kartellin leivissä. Veriteoista puhutaan avoimesti ja mitään oikeastaan katumatta, ja koko kartellin toimintatapaa aina korruptoituneesta valtiotasolta rikosten käytäntöönpanoon asti. Puhuvan pään kerrontatapaa elävöitetään - raastavan rahisevalla tussilla - vihkoon piirtäen ja paikoin karuja muistoja uudelleennäytellen, mikä raikastaa kerron"

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"Järkyttävä raina, jossa Sicario, palkkamurhaaja avaa entisen elämänsä hirmutekoja ja kuvailee yksityiskohtaisesti muun muassa kiduttamista. Kaikki perustellaan vakaalla asemalla, hyvällä toimeentulolla, jonka murhaamisesta ja pomon käskyjen tottelemisesta saa. Kaikki on ostettavissa, jopa ihmisen henki. Rankkuudessaan tuo mieleen vaikka jonkun Act of Killingin, vaikka rakentuukin paljon yksinkertaisimmista aineksista: vain yksi puhuja, yksi huone, yksi tarina..."