Cartel Land isn’t a documentary that goes through the thick plot that is very close to reality with ease and provides an opportunity to look through the eyes of drug smugglers. However, being a documentary that is focused on vigilantism, the depictions of people to take laws into their own hands and be the force that smites the wicked is the general premise of the documentary. It is to understand that the focus on vigilantism where removing one from the constraints of local and state law and keeping oneself on a pedestal is something that is quite common in American culture when it comes to American vigilantism. This documentary depicts this topic in an extremely symphonic way, showing the two sides of the dispute and providing an inside look towards how vigilantes, in reality, work.
Cartel Land is approximately about people who convert fantasy into fact, Heineman commences from a posture of sympathy. The film starts with Mexicans preparing food crystal meth in the desert, showing Heineman that they know their product wreaks havoc in the U.S., but, hey, it’s business. The world has two functions: showing these men, while individuals, haven’t any moral compass, and claim that Heineman himself gets to associated risk heading where few folks have gone before. Then he presents one of his own two protagonists: veteran Tim “Nailer” Foley, who works a paramilitary group called Az Boundary Recon that roams Arizona’s Altar Valley looking for both people who try to cross illegally and drug smugglers.
Good Guy Bad Guy
Prepare to dive into lawless vigilantes that cloak themselves as the law; go through the Arizonian desert and fall into the documentary that truly “investigates” into the cartel and the situation in the American-Mexican border. This documentary will show you the “good guys” and the “bad guys”. After watching the documentary, you’ll get into a moral dilemma; whether the people hunting these cartels on the Arizona desert morally better when going after cartel members, drug smugglers etc. while acting above the law? Or is it better to hunt down the cartels that are using the black money to kill Willy Nilly? That’s for the viewer to decide.
What is vigilantism?
This documentary is amazing and important at the same time; not only because of the current state of America, but also because of vigilantism that is a subject seemingly seems undermentioned but is, has been, and probably will be, a problem for the local authorities and the law and order situation of the country. It is important to consider American history and how vigilantism has different outcomes, whether it is from the KKK or the Arizona’s Altar Valley. This documentary is a perfect fit for the current socio-political status of America and is highly insightful. Don’t miss out on this masterpiece of a documentary; not only is has scenes that reflect cultural and social differences, the norms rooted inside American culture can be clearly shown here.
Cartel Land is absolutely amazing and worth watching for anyone looking for an insightful documentary close to home. To watch Cartel Land, click here.
