'Narco Cultura' Explores Mexican Cartel Violence and the Music That Glorifies It Justin Monroe - ComplexTV
go to original September 22, 2013

Narco Cultura Official Trailer (FilmFestivalVideos)

In Juarez, Mexico, there's a cartel war going on outside no man is safe from. In the graphic, disturbing, and beautifully shot documentary Narco Cultura, director Shaul Schwarz focuses his lens on the once lively city, which now appears to be a ghost town because the populace hides indoors, afraid of becoming another statistic in the high kidnapping and murder rates.

Although there are many who see the drug dealers as a villainous plague, others in Mexico and the U.S. have turned them into Robin Hood-esque folk heroes, singing their praises in popular drug ballads known as narcocorridos, which are like a polka-infused Mexican version of 1990s gangster rap that raises similar questions about whether they document or exploit suffering.

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