The Museum of Modern Art recently hosted the New York screening of "Sicario", starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro. The film follows FBI agent Kate Macer (Blunt), who is recruited by a shadowy task force that plots to take down the leader of a murderous Mexican drug cartel.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the movie did its best not to discourse anything related to U.S drug policy, but instead opted to circle around the ground-level corruption on both sides of the border, thus make the political undertones palpable.
"Sicario" is set to be released on October 2, 2015, and Blunt, in an interview with Stuff, talked about the whole her character and why she chose it at the first place.
"I don't ever relate to characters that don't have their sh*t together in their 30s...I've been offered a couple parts like that and I just say, 'I don't relate to it. I don't understand it.' I don't have an interest in playing those kinds of parts. As I get older, I just love seeing people that don't have their head in their hands. I like seeing people who cope."
She further discussed in general about women in the entertainment industry:
"We need to take more action and talk less about it...I sometimes feel you can exacerbate a problem by talking about it until you're blue in the face and putting further and further stamps on the divide. Instead of having nights that celebrate women in Hollywood, we should organize programmes where you pay for female writers to develop their skills."
On the other hand, The Concourse defined the film as a horror movie. The never-ending growling led to scenes marked by eerie, expansive silence. The action scenes were not dreary, while the climactic sequences were shot unlike anything else before.
One significant line in the beginning of the film is del Toro's, "Nothing will make sense to your American ears," implying an idea that is somewhat scary yet interesting.
"It's not a movie about the cartels; it's not a movie about the drug trade. It's a movie about how we react to a strong enemy outside of our border. Do we need to become a monster like them? That's the subject of the movie," director Denis Villeneuve on the movie's gist.
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