Loved the movie, Finchmaster is one of a kind❤ Unless the police detectives are completely incompetent, the zip tie bruises will give away the foul play of the death of the secretary, so that is another sloppy mistake by the killer.

It is difficult to try and improve on perfection. It is also futile to try and second guess a genius like Orson Welles. If you really want to see how you would have approached directing this great scene, you would have to start where Welles started: with the script. In order to understand how you as director would approach this scene, you would have to know how it fits in with the other scenes in the script. Your decisions about location, lighting, blocking, composition, camera motion, etc. would come from your interpretation of the meaning of the script. And no two directors will ever interpret the same script the same way. Which means all of your choices for location, lighting, blocking, composition, camera motion, even casting will be decidedly different from Welles and anyone else. What would be more useful for aspiring directors is to understand how Welles in collaboration with Gregg Toland eventually came to settle on the choices that ended up in the final cut of the film. It's quite fascinating to know where they started and all of the different rewrites and revisions Welles went through until he final settled on what ended up on screen. That was quite an education for me.

The word, "badass" is used too much, too wrongly in this video.

The implication is that Alejandro rapes Guillermo.

Also, in Chapter Three ➡️ NEW ORLEANS / The Lawyer, he says, “Empathy is weakness” In his in internal monologue then his eye twitches. It’s about him actually having empathy.

My theory: she drinks the flight of whiskeys 🥃🥃🥃🥃 then pours another for herself. The Killer drinks the fifth glass of whiskey. She was surprised because he actually imbibed. This showed empathy. It was her last meal. Earlier in the film his eye twitches when he says: “empathy. ” I think the twitch is a signifier that he cares about people, that he’s actually capable of warmth. He’s just highly selective of it.

Not that I think you missed it, but you didn't mention the fact that she had to shoot the state police trooper at the border. It serves, in my opinion, multiple purposes. First: she was told to just observe, and this made her an active participant. Second: it brings home the reality of the situation. Nobody can be trusted, and violence is omnipresent, and her survival dependent on her using lethal force. The other men on the team cannot always protect her. It sets her on edge, and makes her angry, and when they return to base, she lashes out to Matt. Is that important in terms of plot? Probably not, but it sure raised the stakes

I disagree for one simple fact. This movie is based on a series of comics. David F said he would be willing to make sequels if the original does well financially. Unfortunately it seemed to have mostly gone by unnoticed so I doubt we'll get a sequel. But the fact David said that implies he would still be alive at the end of the first movie obviously.

As a tax payer I want alejando and Matt graver

Best video I’ve seen on this movie!

You took the long way around the block to say nothing, we want to know how a man could survive 3 days

Bro you saved me from that sh*t!

Overanalyzing much? Just my opinion

Jake is an early example of the anti-hero.

china town is about water rights. Noah's flood is about water. Noah Cross is about controlling the water.

For me both Alejandro and Matt's team are sicarios. I see the cartels as invaders. They don't physically invade the US but smuggle illegals. They also flood the country with drugs and corrupt cops. Matt's team hunts the invaders.

War between White and Brown Gangster's.over the trans border drugs

That's a good breakdown!

Just for that, I won’t watch your actual video. Classic “Justin Flom” hack garbage

Wow amazing interpretation

So, like Elon.

Do you know if IngramSpark's reporting data is still as delayed as it was 4 years ago when this video was posted?

This is a fantastic breakdown Jay! Love this! Your suggestions of enhancing the scene sounds amazing. I'd like less shots as well, but longer shots to drink it in. Black and white plays so well with smoky lighting. Something about it is visually breathtaking.

I love how we basically DID what happened in this movie by taking out the head of the sinaloa cartel and his son. Then everything got way worse because that created a power vacuum where more violent cartels took over. Jalisco New Generation is essentially the new cartel in power, and they're way worse than the Sinaloa cartel were. More violent in general, more dangerous drugs cut into everything(fentanyl) and more bent on aggressively invasive expansion strategies (in American border states). The "good intentions" of the CIA character Josh Brolin played seem to have helped pave the road to hell. It's almost like that's what certain sects of our political elite (*cough* corporate interests *cough*) wanted to happen so they could justify military response (probably under Trump). Then they can "control" the extremely lucrative market disparity that is the southern border. There are no "good guys" in this. Just bigger fish.

After seeing those recent LA fires, I thought of this movie.

Great take on this Jay! Ran into your piece online so had to come check this out, looking forward to watching more!

Like, not clear why they have selected her for the team.

8:35 A clunky and 'roughly' accurate adaptation of the MARK I Iron Man suit from AVENGERS #1!!! Glad they didn't skip over that one in the film.

Just one question. Where is that hat from? What is CR?

That was a fantastic breakdown Thank you !!

Entertaining Charlie Day theory… but no bruv. The twitch is basically a Travis Bickle ala Taxi Driver wink to the audience his facade isn’t holding up.

One of my favorites

Dig it 😎🤙🏼 You made the movie 10x better for me.

1. Alejandro is Columbian. 2. Did we miss what? You just described the beginning of the plot in a basic way 😂

Props for your STRANGER THINGS mise-en-scene in the background!

0:25 It's funny when you say "Original IRON MAN". We've had 3 (technically 4) Spider-Men in live-action, 9+ BATMEN, 3, yes 3 Wonder Women, 5 Reed Richards [Justice for Harvey Corman], and 1 WOLVERINE [not counting events in DP vs WOLVERINE]. RDJ is the Only IRON MAN; Tom Cruise wasn't available for his scene in DOCTOR STRANGE 2.

The whole concept is fascinating but unlikely. Why the expert should keep radioactive poison in her purse just in case to poison someone? And then she try to stab him? I think the twitch is more like something related to his anxiety, i do aswell have the same twitch and i didn’t took radioactive shit.

Contrary to some elaborate opinion that the real protagonist is Alejandro, the Mexican prosecutor turned assassin seeking for and enacting an unsatisfying revenge. I held it that Kate is the real protagonist because it is her who has meaningful conversations although short and not with other women, being an action movie, but with her partner Reg, the black FBI lawyer agent. It is her values that are smashed and her life that is put on the line, not by the criminals but by Alejandro to fulfill a technical requirement. Alejandro is mainly a secondary figure to Matt who describes him as "my bird dog". Alejandro´s only meaningful conversation takes place with a Mexican law-enforcement official is about his personal tragedy.

Wait but why destroying the cartel just to put another? Why not destroy both?

Is it ever made clear how BDT's character got so well-trained as an assassin? I assume it was with the CIA because of his relationship with Matt?? He was a lawyer...or could that have just been his cover? I loved the movie but I was confused at times. Thanks for the breakdown, Jay.

I watched half of the breakdown, then thought let me watch the movie again and return to the breakdown. Great stuff!

Alejandro became the very thing he set out to destroy. Nothing is as irredeemable as intentionally killing kids.

I absolutely hated this movie 😬 it just felt very empty to me. Some of the plot was just plain dumb.

THANK YOU!!

Alejandro has an ark as well. In fact he is the true protagonist. The film switches to his perspective only after his story ark is revealed and we realize that the whole story is driven by his desire for revenge and the willingness of certain parts of the US government to help him achieve it.

Amazing video, I have always looked for an explainer like this. I was searching for something to talk about Sicario after I just finished watching it, and figured I would only find clickbaity "I bet you didn't know this!" type videos, but this is perfect. Actual discussion of plot points and narrative elements from someone who knows wtf they're talking about

At first i thought you were talking about no vacacy the 2012 movie. I was about to say damn bro why you doing this. I would like to watch yours though please update us

Honestly, I prefer this film analysis over the film itself. I understand that this was important for history, and film making as a whole, but I can't help but feel bored watching it nonetheless.

I’m no Gene Siskel but…….this didn’t “explain” anything I had not missed. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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