This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
honestly kind of awful. this is probably going to win a ton of awards and piss me off.
i’m sure there’s some typical allegorical stuff going on here about the endless cycle of cartel violence in mexico, and how everyone can be worthy of redemption blah blah, but I found it pretty revolting to have a former cartel boss found an NGO (like the real world ‘madres buscadores’) to help search for the disappeared and presumably murdered victims of cartel…
i really like stories about failure. navigating a world where nothing gets solved, the detectives waddle from clue to clue like infants, studying coincidences as truth and building up fantasies to avoid insanity in the face of absurd cruelty and violence, losing much of their humanity in the process, only to give up, move on, and accept the inevitable reality of their own failures. it's a story mediating the gap between justice and truth, problems of law enforcement as public…
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