The tranquilities of a peaceful life living on a beach teaching surfing unexpectedly mutate in Andrea Di Stefano's Escobar: Paradise Lost, as love magnetically draws a couple together, and a Canadian romantic is suddenly thrust into the world of cocaine exportation.
Tectonic shifts.
Alternative outputs.
The couple is quite young and Nick (Josh Hutcherson) somewhat ill-prepared for his newfound corruptly honourable daily transactions, their relationship fervid and flourishing, his responsibilities, a discombobulating mind fuck.
Kingpin Pablo Escobar (Benicio del Toro) takes religion quite seriously.
He distributes wealth to the people.
He takes care of friends and family.
Requiring strict obedience.
And no nonsense.
The film embraces its haunting naive blossoming recourse to sound polarized youthful degeneration with multidimensional popularized efficiency, almost tumbling off a cliff, the established and the entrepreneur coming together as family, age inspecting its curious new fledgling, love securely blanketing the stage.
The crimes.
A chilling if not formulaic examination of familial stress and stipulated largesse, competing ethical constabularies cauterized in political inflammations.
Nick is forced to adapt as the authorities move in and Escobar downsizes.
To fight back.
To survive.
Solid career move for Hutcherson.
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