メキシコとアメリカの国境地帯で、モイセス（ガエル・ガルシア・ベルナル）と仲間がアメリカに密入国しようと灼熱（しゃくねつ）の砂漠を歩き続けていた。突如何者かに次々と狙撃され、訳もわからぬまま逃げ惑う一行は銃撃だけでなく、摂氏50度の過酷な環境にも苦しめられる。水も武器も逃げ場もない絶望的な状況で、アメリカを目指す彼らの運命は……。
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監督: Jonás Cuarón
脚本: Jonás Cuarón / Mateo García Elizondo
制作: アルフォンソ・キュアロン / Carlos Cuarón / Jonás Cuarón
撮影監督: Damián García
制作会社: Itaca Films / Esperanto Kino / CG Cinéma / Orange Studio / Lava Bear Films
This is one of those films that takes some time and consideration to fully assess. One one level, it's a straight-forward action/thriller with a unique and interesting setting. Heroes and antiheroes pervade as we are plunged into what is for most of us a new experience and reality. Of course, one that is fully fictionalized. If you can get the emotional distance to view it as such, the film works fairly well, even though it follows a fairly predictable narrative arc that we have seen in many other contexts. (Boy meets cat, boy saves cat, boy better save cat again and again and again, etc.) On another level this film serves as a none-too-subtle political and terse philosophical commentary about current disagreements within the United States of America and her southern bordering nation. In this aspect the film uses all the finesse of a sledgehammer meeting a mosquito, with thinly developed two-dimensional characters that later on still seem to betray themselves far too quickly. In this aspect the film seems to fail in changing minds (if expected to engage the "other") or succeed in reinforcing biases (if expected to create our oh-so-delightful echo chambers). I can imagine this film really working well in a different time and place, but in our current historical context--for which it was undoubtedly developed and funded--it just doesn't work all that well. My advice: watch if you can lay down your ideologies, sink into the experience and enjoy it as an action/thriller. If you can't do that you will likely find yourselves aggravated by the experience no matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum. (3/5)
