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Disappointed, I expected a lot from this series, its cast, based on a novel, and I found it disconcerting, nonsensical, with contradictory approaches, it supports violence, it does not support violence, it denounces corruption and on the other hand justifies it, I don't understand where it wants to go, too many contradictions in the script and in its characters, and for what it really counts it becomes too long, stretched out without giving it meaning or going deeper. The protagonist goes from being a CIA agent, and being proud of her brother to questioning him, after being kidnapped and tortured by drug traffickers?, the journalist tells them that they solve it outside of the legal channel in Bolivia, and when they do, she questions them for ending up with some terrorist narcos?. And saving one life deserves so many deaths?. In TV fiction, human life is worth less and less, and then we talk about violence in society, but what are we learning by constantly seeing this gratuitous violence? And since children. A pity.

Because they are completely different movies. Amputated in 1998 due to the adventurous leap towards the "immoral", the editing of that film was altered, eliminating almost 40min of footage, shooting 30min of new ones, adding the voice-over of its protagonist, and promoting a post-Scream Neve Campbell from cameo as Phillippe's love interest and headliner, and finally altering the order and meaning of most of his scenes. What in 54 of 1998 wanted to be a moral fable about success, excess, rise, fall and redemption (although in the end it was more of an aesthetic and forcedly melancholic anecdote); It is now the unprejudiced love story of a menage à trois, as well as an uncompromising portrait of a place, a moment, and its people. Comparing both tapes, only the character of Steve Rubell retains his essence; all the others change absolutely and fortunately, becoming now careerists, solitary beings, obsessed with success to limits as terrible as they are recognizable. Their actions follow nihilistic paths, disguised as wild hedonism, turning their backs on the tempus fugit, turning the body into a map of the night before dawn, nocturnal creatures, as Hopper would say.

And this transformation of the characters of characters gives rise to some interpretations, now yes, superb in their courage, in their sincerity, in their absolute lack of modesty and false status as a youthful star. That is why it is fascinating to observe how Ryan Phillippe, now with the best performance of his career, faces a young man as simple as he is dark, so bent on his own desires that he is capable of betraying even true love.

Incredible documentary with first-person testimonies, slowly and calmly, to listen, meditate and observe the worst of human nature, the wolf that justifies itself, the guilt that evades, the hidden, justified hatred and resentment, the evasion in the looks, the slow and stammering responses, the laughter of certain witnesses, the human being can really be a demon, and then continue living as if nothing had happened. Education in hatred of the neighbor, of the brother, we see where it can go, and here, unfortunately, history repeats itself, we continue to incite hatred for mere economic interests, disguised as culture, nationalities, races and religions...