Documentary: Cartel Land
1. The scene that really got to me was when I saw that little tiny babies were killed. I simply do not understand how any human on this planet can have the heart to murder such an inocent human who hasn't even had his or her first birthday. Babies are so innocent and it just breaks my heart to know people actually do this. It made me extremely angry, I have an 8 month old son and just thinking about someone hurting him makes me burn up in rage. I would give my life to save his. I can only imagine how that family felt. It is so depressing because it wasn't just one person murdered, this documentary started with a whole family being wiped out. The way that cartel murdered those babies were just inhumane, they were smashed against rocks and walls!
2. What suprised me about this documentary was that literally no one in the state of Michoacan felt safe whatsoever. They mentioned that even their federal government was corrupt. That community actually feared the federal government! This comunity took matters into their own hands and started Autodefensas (self-defenders), they were the ones who hunted down the cartels. Their goal was to eliminate all of the cartel, to return peace to their inhabitants. What really surprised me was how the leader of the Autodefensas did not fear to give his life for his people. Imagine having cartels putting a price on you head, I mean essentially he was bound to have really bad people doing really bad things to him. The plane he boarded was actually tampered with and he almost lost his life! He survived but half of his face was paralyzed.
3. This documentary did stick with me. I mean, to many people it could just be a documentary. To me, it hit me on a very different scale, all of my family is from Mexico and what if it were my entire family that was wiped out? It's documentaries like this one that really make me take in consideration how I can go to sleep every night without having to worry that my house will get raided. Also, I have that trust that the federal government has the best interest in the safety of it's people. What also got to me how the film maker almost lost his life as well! He was in an SUV where some Autodefensas were in as well, and a car started shooting at them. It's crazy because you could just be at the wrong place at the right time.
Some problematic concepts I saw were why didn't the federal government take action? Are people now still battling this problem? Are they taking actions into their own hands? Is the situation getting any better at all? I want to know where and what the Autodefensas aren doing now. Is their community any safer than it was before starting this alliance?
Review: From the other reviews I came across I did notice a huge difference. The critcs moreso went into detail of the actual scenes themselves and the qulaity of the video. I talked more about the actual concept of the video. There were some similarties, for example, one of the reviews mentions how the director had some guts to go out there and put his own life at risk to simply inform us about what is really going on in places like Michoacan.
1. The scene that really got to me was when I saw that little tiny babies were killed. I simply do not understand how any human on this planet can have the heart to murder such an inocent human who hasn't even had his or her first birthday. Babies are so innocent and it just breaks my heart to know people actually do this. It made me extremely angry, I have an 8 month old son and just thinking about someone hurting him makes me burn up in rage. I would give my life to save his. I can only imagine how that family felt. It is so depressing because it wasn't just one person murdered, this documentary started with a whole family being wiped out. The way that cartel murdered those babies were just inhumane, they were smashed against rocks and walls!
2. What suprised me about this documentary was that literally no one in the state of Michoacan felt safe whatsoever. They mentioned that even their federal government was corrupt. That community actually feared the federal government! This comunity took matters into their own hands and started Autodefensas (self-defenders), they were the ones who hunted down the cartels. Their goal was to eliminate all of the cartel, to return peace to their inhabitants. What really surprised me was how the leader of the Autodefensas did not fear to give his life for his people. Imagine having cartels putting a price on you head, I mean essentially he was bound to have really bad people doing really bad things to him. The plane he boarded was actually tampered with and he almost lost his life! He survived but half of his face was paralyzed.
3. This documentary did stick with me. I mean, to many people it could just be a documentary. To me, it hit me on a very different scale, all of my family is from Mexico and what if it were my entire family that was wiped out? It's documentaries like this one that really make me take in consideration how I can go to sleep every night without having to worry that my house will get raided. Also, I have that trust that the federal government has the best interest in the safety of it's people. What also got to me how the film maker almost lost his life as well! He was in an SUV where some Autodefensas were in as well, and a car started shooting at them. It's crazy because you could just be at the wrong place at the right time.
Some problematic concepts I saw were why didn't the federal government take action? Are people now still battling this problem? Are they taking actions into their own hands? Is the situation getting any better at all? I want to know where and what the Autodefensas aren doing now. Is their community any safer than it was before starting this alliance?
Review: From the other reviews I came across I did notice a huge difference. The critcs moreso went into detail of the actual scenes themselves and the qulaity of the video. I talked more about the actual concept of the video. There were some similarties, for example, one of the reviews mentions how the director had some guts to go out there and put his own life at risk to simply inform us about what is really going on in places like Michoacan.
Wow. Just by reading this I've already learned a lot. I know that there are great deals of problems there but this serves as just a reminder. It's sad that their government isn't serving their people. But it's good that the director risked his life to show the world what exactly is going on there. But I'm wondering if there is anything that can be done?
ReplyDeleteI also watched this documentary, and the scene where they explain that the babies were killed was one of the ones that really got to me as well. I have a niece who just turned one and cannot imagine why people would want to hurt innocent infants. Like yours, my family is also from Mexico , which makes the documentary even harder to process because of the thought of them having to go through this.
ReplyDeleteSeeing documentaries like this is very hard because knowing that around the world bad things are happening and you cant really save them can really get to you. Especially because people are getting killed for trying to help those in danger or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even with you having family down there in Mexico and not knowing if they are safe or in danger is so hard to process because that is your family, someone you care for dearly and just want to be safe.
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