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I do think Emily Blunt's character was in a way incorruptible. She signed the document under threat for her life, which is, by the standards of most stories, not exactly heroic. But she can't or won't shoot del Toro as he walks away, making her one of the only characters in the movie who doesn't ultimately try to solve a problem by killing everything problematic. By Sicario standards that's a victory of sorts.
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This movie's an interesting counterpoint to The Wire, mostly because I've been watching them both so they're in my head together, but also because The Wire shows how Kate probably expects policing should work — even as SWAT, you don't expect actual military shootouts, most of your drug work is poo poo like barricaded suspects and taking down stash houses. Bodies in the walls and bombs in the outhouse are a level of paramilitary violence that drive the Americans to retaliate with, well, more of the same. I can't imagine the characters in The Wire understanding how a case like Operation Medellin would operate. It's absolutely foreign to their understanding of policing, completely alien to the context of making cases and developing informants. If you go into the movie with that kind of policing in mind I think it's really easy to understand Kate's reaction.
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resurgam40 posted:I like this viewpoint because provides a (slightly) more optimistic reading of the ending scene: when Mercer points her gun at Alejandro, it's an act of defiance, but it's a greater act of defiance when she doesn't shoot. Yes. This was when I knew the movie wasn't going to go full nihilist: she's been defeated in every sense except the deepest one, and she retains her soul. Signing the paper is an act compelled by violence, but she does not in turn use violence to compel.
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