Wednesday 12 October 2011

Bonaerense
(2002)

RATING:80%
FORMAT:DVD



An intelligent depiction of a culture in crisis revealed through its police. A country boy is arrested for his crimes but strings are pulled to take him to the big city and a job in the police force. There he becomes progressively embroiled in an endemically-corrupt system of institutional criminality, ethnic supremacism and violence - he bcomes a part of the problem, not its solution.

Although rather slow-moving, the deadpan direction serves its themes well: Unsensational treatment rams home the point that corruption is an everyday experience. The only police officer that condemns it is seen as a misfit because the corruption is so widespread there seems no means of escaping it nor one's own eventually-corrupt nature. Yet the good officer is the only character who comes across as fully human; the central character being as dead on the outside as he is on the inside.



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