We know too much about Mexico's drug war.
We hear about it constantly, about the 60,000 murders and the slaughter of
innocents, but getting a sense of what that means to our culture and the
influence it has on our music is harder to come by. The documentary "Narco
Cultura" is an excellent place to start.
What this film does to the viewer. It
reveals two very different societies, One in Juarez Mexico and the other one
California, U.S. Both societies exhibit,
each in its own way, unmistakable signs of cultural collapse.
What's happening in Juarez? The city of Juarez is an epicenter of mass
murders. The city of Juarez is known as
the murder capital of the world. How
that killing is reflected and refracted through the lens of Mexican American
popular culture is in some ways equally shocking.
Our guides to these complementary worlds
are completely different. In Juarez, we are in the company of Richi Soto, a
soft-spoken but dogged crime scene investigator, while in Los Angeles and on
tour we hang out with Edgar Quintero. He's an joyful song writer, who is a
rising star in the writing and performing of narcocorridos, “ narcocorridos” are hugely popular songs that
highly celebrate and glorifies the savage killings and killers of the drug wars.
This film it’s both passionate and devastating
at the same time. “Narco Cultura” gives you an inside look at the drug war in
Mexico from two different but chilling perspectives. As directed and shot by
Shaul Schwarz, an accomplished photojournalist who spent two years in this
world as a still photographer before starting to film, "Narco
Cultura" benefits from the access Schwarz earned through his time on the
ground
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