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Heli (2013)

Drama | 105 minutes
3,32 167 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 105 minuten

Country: Mexico / Netherlands / Germany / France

Directed by: Amat Escalante

Stars: Armando Espitia, Linda Gonzalez and Juan Eduardo Palacios

IMDb score: 6,8 (5.521)

Releasedate: 9 August 2013

Heli plot

Young Heli (Armando Espitia) is a simple worker in a car assembly factory. He lives under one roof with his wife, his 12-year-old sister Estela (Andrea Vergara) and his father. When Estela falls hopelessly in love with the young police officer Beto, it all goes wrong. Inadvertently, Heli finds himself dealing with the merciless Mexican drug mafia. Determined to do the right thing, Heli tries to save himself and his family from the clutches of the extremely violent drug world.

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Movsin

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Very raw film about the power of crime over a society, including the unreliable, frivolous police apparatus, and the more than dramatic impact on innocence.

A film that actually keeps you in its grip and even though some scenes are held in tension for a long time, nothing is lost.

In terms of acting, the young girl especially left an impression and the beautiful final scene where pleasure is contrasted with lifelong trauma is more than suggestive.

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sinterklaas

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In a beautifully subtle way, Heli takes us to one of the most dangerous places on earth. Mexico near the US border. Where almost everyone is corrupt and you can hardly distinguish who is a cartel and who is a police officer.

A police officer who can still be trusted is the certain Beto; but he is not thanked for that either. On the other hand, we follow a thrown-together family who cares for each other; the mechanic Heli, his wife, his sister and his old father. His sister Estella is in love with Beto. She is admired by his experienced character, the relief in her boredom... but also his work. When Beto decides to show her a "UFO", things go wrong.

And it creeps in. First we follow the characters, we deal with the police force that is mainly concerned with embezzling kilos of coke; and celebrates this exuberantly with the village, but the longer it goes on, the more Heli and his family and Beto are kept in a stranglehold. In short, and that lesson again: a little finger in the world and you are sucked into it, whether you want to or not.

What I did find annoying at times was that I couldn't always separate Heli and Beto.

But otherwise this is a beautiful piece of cinema. You could call this an arthouse version of Scicario. However, the brigade only plays a supporting role here. Beautiful pictures also of the sandy plain and the brooding villages that are under the breath of this merciless world.

4.0*

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Fisico (moderator films)

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You want to have as little to do with ruthless drug gangs as possible. But that is not self-evident when you live in a Mexican border town where drug trafficking and crime are commonplace. And you often don't have to rely too much on the police, because they are not the ones in charge in the region.

If a shipment of drugs accidentally comes your way, you only have three options: sell, throw away or return. Always a bit of a mess I think. The kidnapping and subsequent torture was intense. The corporal punishment up to that point, but setting (his piet) on fire? Not bad. You immediately know where the opening scene comes from.

You feel the grip and impact of the drug mafia in the region right in your seat. It is a subcutaneous creeping poison, hopeless too, because who is going to protect you? The return of the sister is revengeful. That is the final scene of the film. Strong!

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