Matthew Heineman over het maken van de Documentaire Cartel Land

RDJ134 3 juli 2015 om 01:08 uur

Dat Mexico gebukt gaat onder een golf van geweld door drugs kartels is niet echt nieuws meer, wel dat het probleem nu aan het overwaaien is naar Amerika. De politie aan beiden kanten van de grens hebben hun handen vol, dus nemen steeds meer burgers het recht in eigen hand door milities te vormen die tegen de kartels vechten. Dat is precies waar de documentaire Cartel Land over gaat, de maker er van Matthew Heineman had een interview met de website Collider over het film terwijl de kogels om de oren vlogen.


Some of the things you just described was some of the most harrowing stuff I've ever seen on film. What's it like being behind the camera during a genuine shootout or when two people are discussing a murder?

HEINEMAN
: It was frightening. It was a totally, utterly frightening film to make. I think in those situations, for me actually being behind the camera-especially in like the shootouts-calmed me down. Focusing on the crafting of filmmaking, focusing on exposing, actually calmed me down in those really intense moments. But I will say that despite all of the sort of exhilarating, adrenaline-filled moments of the film, for me one of the most scary moments was not those but actually sitting down with a young woman whose husband was chopped up into pieces in front of her. To hear her describe those horrors, and to see this woman whose body was right in front of me but whose soul has been sucked out of her, and whose eyes were deeply hollow, and to hear her describe the horrors that she witnessed and to think that we're the same species, human beings that would do that to other people, that stuck with me probably moreso than anything.




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