Aided only by a magic marker and notepad which he uses to illustrate and diagram his words the sicario describes in astounding detail his life of crime murder abduction and torture.
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Directed by gianfranco rosi.
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A triple prizewinner at the venice film festival this documentary introduces a mexican drug war hit man who sits masked in a motel room and candidly details his trade.
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.
In modern language a sicario is a professional killer or a hit man.
As he speaks the hooded subject of el sicario room 164 writes in a notebook a numbered list of the weapons he names.
Bureaucrats complicity with the bloodthirsty agenda of the narcos i e.
Although a frontline or 60 minutes segment on rosi s protagonist would doubtless contextualize the sicario s testimony with ponderous voice over or found footage his unadorned mixture of boastfulness self flagellation and willingness to underline mexican and u s.
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Quick and lean he continues so that the victim feels nothing more.
Review a minimalist study in maximum violence gianfranco rosi s el sicario room 164 offers viewers the rare chance to meet a mexican narco hitman and to live.