It's one thing to fix a problem, but it's something else to find the culprit. Rebooting a computer or device, for example, often fixes an issue, but what actually caused the problem in the first place?
At my work, I do root cause analyses, so my ears perked up when I heard about Vice President Harris wanting to go to South America to find the root cause of why so many migrants are coming to America. I can relate because my family fled Vietnam as refugees when I was a baby. In any case, Harris' trip was welcome news because politicians always seem to blame and criticize their opponents more than try to solve problems.
There's been a lot of talk lately about the Mexican-American border, and this made me think of the movie Fronteras, which means borders in Spanish. In the film, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, who is Hispanic, is recruited into a secretive government agency team trying to put a stop to a new dangerous drug that's flowing into the U.S. It's fiction, but it's another intriguing look into the war on drugs.
Fronteras is a lot like Sicario and Training Day, in which the CBP officer witnesses very unorthodox methods to get the job done. The tone and look of the film are almost identical to Sicario. The movie's pacing is sometimes slow, but the screenplay is really solid with some memorable scenes. It doesn't exactly have a happy ending, and I don't agree with all the politics in the film, but If you like Sicario and Training Day, I recommend checking out Fronteras.
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