The documentary, Narco Cultura, gives a primary view into the Sinaloa drug cartel and the influence it has on music and Mexico. The film, released in 2013, and directed by award-winning photojournalist, Shaul Schwarz, follows the lives of two people in two societies; one living in the United States, the other living in Juarez, Mexico. The film, Narco Cultura, does well displaying the conditions that face Mexicans in Juarez, like murders and threats of violence, as well as the lavish lifestyle, “El Corrido’s,” experience in the United States, by using music, and interviews, which help to support a basic idea; the cartel is destroying society in one country, while influencing a lavish lifestyle in another. Shaul Schwarz does an exceptional job displaying the opposing lifestyles stemming from the same sinister cartel. …show more content…
It is found in every culture, and it is no surprise that it is often used to evoke emotions. Shaul Schwarz uses music throughout the film to convey different emotions. The general tone of the music is slow and somber. It evokes depressed emotions, and creates a sense of sadness towards the film. The film maker does this so that we can quickly empathize with the situation at hand. This situation, at the beginning of the film is the introduction to Juarez and Richie Soto. Richie Soto is the crime scene investigator whose life is at the center of the depiction of Mexican Society. A further example of this is the Corrido’s. When the Corrido’s are shown, they are accompanied by upbeat, light music. The music changes to accompany the exemplification of the lavish lifestyle, of the Corrido’s in the United States. The positive music goes well with the positive lifestyle, invoking a sense of happiness in the viewer. Music is a powerful tool, which enables the producers to evoke the emotions they’d like us to
Another reason why narco corridos are an influence to society is their disrespect towards women, since the genre of music is about glorifying drugs and illegal money, artists tend to sing about luxuries cars parties and they also make women seem like an object that can be bought by their illegal activities. In narco corrido videos there is always more than one women half naked dancing around a man that thinks he deserves it all. It has always been around that women back then would do whatever their husband would tell them to do even if men would go around with other women, well narco corridos try to bring the message back of men having more than one women and just showing off the money they have living a criminal life. This attitude going on
...e live seem to be too dangerous for them to fell happy. However, they are against the evil and violence, ignorance and lie. Corchado is quite unsure about the future of Mexico, but he also sees that these people are strong willed and they have chance to make some change in the way they live. He doesn’t pay attention to politics, instead of that he relies solely on people, their courage and strong will. We should all be so strong enough to change, what we want to change, and preserve what we need to preserve. Alfredo Corchado showed us the example of how brave hearted a person should be and how much we should all love our motherland. After reading this book, you won’t remain ignorant about Mexico and the journalism in general.
In both the movie, La Misma Luna, and the newspaper series, Enrique’s Journey, migrants are faced with many issues. The most deadly and scarring issues all relate back to bandits, judicial police, and la migra or Mexican immigration officers. The problems that arise are serious to the point of rape, robbing, and beating. It is not easy crossing the border illegally and secretly, but the successful ones have an interesting or even traumatic story about how it worked for them.
The article begins with Kaplan’s trek northward from Mexico City and describes many of the sights he sees along the way. He describes dirt roads lined with trash, and cinder-block houses with corrugated roofs. Then he goes into great detail about the economic divisions between social classes and the booming America-bound drug industry that causes the division.
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believe the film is saying, and what effect music has had on projecting the films overall message.
In his essay "Selena’s Good Buy: Texas Mexicans, History, and Selena Meet Transnational Capitalism,” Coronado (2001) argues that Selena embodies displaced desires that need to be situated in their historical content. By looking at how Texans and marketers reacted to Selena’s death, Coronado was able to show us how Selena’s death can be looked at form a psychoanalytic lens. The working class’ obsession with Selena can be seen as a fetish of sorts. A fetish is caused by trauma and can be applied socially to a irritable social construct. In other words, Selena could be a social fetish; the Latinx working class abruptly lost someone who was representing them in mainstream media, leading to the trauma. In this theory, Selena is no longer seen as a person who contributed hugely to the rise of colored people in mainstream media, but as
The film is about change and every element of sound functions to reinforce that theme. The opening sequence uses an audio recording of a prisoner’s interrogation to transcend space and time. The scene bridges sound from the actual interrogation, where the sound is synchronized with the prisoner speaking the words, to a training session for future interrogators, where the sound is now simultaneous with a recording from the interrogation. The actuality of this recording is used to instruct the students in the art of extracting information and confessions from enemies of the state. The theme of change is asserted when on...
Alternative narratives have been used by the Chicanx Community as a mechanism to resist systematic and structuralized racism. The Chicanx community has continuously been subject them to be criminalized and oppressed. Two social issues in the Chicanx community are Street Vending and reproductive rights. Individuals are dehumanized for their identity and their are reproductive rights are violated when women are coerced to sign consent forms and into consuming harmful forms of birth control. The presentations Coyote Hustler and of the band Los Cambalaches along with the film No Mas Bebes, informs systemic and structuralized racism by creating untraditional art that is unique to Chicanx culture and reflective of their experiences. In making works
...l Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos & The Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.-Mexican Border. Austin: University of Texas Press.
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When the more thoughtful and intimate parts of the movie present themselves, a slow paced piano is used to match the solemn moment. Sections of the movie have a positive and optimistic outlook, for example, when Karl walks through the small country town to the house of his new found friend. Karl is obviously filled with awe and enthusiasm for his resurrection into life, this is reflected through the music. An intimate moment in the movie is between Karl and the boy. Karl tells an extremely sad story. A soulful slide guitar and whistling accompanies this story, the music is extremely sad and is the emotion for the kind hearted but seemingly emotionless Karl. Another touching and emotional part of the movie is when Karl visits his father. Whilst Karl walks to the run down house of his elderly father, harmonious voices sing a haunting gospel tune.
them as unattractive and menacing and everything about this scene is threatening and ugly and makes the audience feel uncomfortable impact. in the audience of the. The music is like funeral music, loud and sad. The... ... middle of paper ... ...bloodshed and murder that follow.
The importance of music in movies is highly regarded for manipulating the viewer’s emotions and helping them immerse into the story. Music is one of the prime elements in cinema. Without it a movie would feel dull and unexciting. There are three elements in a movie: one is acting, the second is picture, and the third one is music. It is a holy trinity; if incomplete, there would be a lack of sensation and excitement. Both acting and picture can stand independently from one another, but music is the one that makes the movie memorable.
Anaesthesia .Narco-analysis means psycho-analysis using drugs to induce a state taking to sleep. Narco-analysis is used as tool for criminal investigation. The accused, witness or suspect is given chemical drugs like sodium pentothal by the police or investigating agencies to make him fall in a hypnotic state so as to make him reveal some information which may be reluctant to reveal while in conscious state. The Narco analysis test is based on the principle that a person is able to lie using his imagination and, under the influence of certain barbiturates, this capacity for imagination is blocked or neutralized by leading the person into a semiconscious state. It becomes difficult for the person to lie and his answers would be restricted to facts he is aware of.