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Amo (2017)
good start but gets lost in the end...
I don't know what to think of this mini-serie. On one side it is a very bare and direct confrontation with the daily struggles of people living in slums. It perfectly shows how quick a young distracted boy finds his way into the world of drugs. This serie deals with the current situation and corruption, the war on drugs. You see pretty much the "same" as in documentaries about this country when it comes to the topic how the government deals with trafficers and addicts. On the other side it's sad that the caracters are poorly thought through... You don't really feel with them because you only get some superficial views into their caracters... You see how they live, their families but you don't see "them" as people with own characters and stories... There are only tiny hints and you have to guess...
The other reason why I only gave 5 stars out of 10 is that the story line gets lost... Somewhere when the young Joseph ends up in the capitol with his brother-in-law there is like a cut and you find yourself again with his uncle and his police co-workers chasing after an Japanese "drug lord"... And there the story gets pretty wicked.
All in all it was worth watching it because of the realistic and authentic view on the war on drugs in a country where we don't know much about but I wouldn't watch it again or recommend it to someone who is not really interested in this topic.