El Jardin, also titled Narco Killer, is a Mexican film about disconnection, immobilizing fear, conformity, loneliness, hope and tragedy, and the power of revolt and change when you band together with your fellow human being against that what paralyzes you with fear. By first-time feature director Christian Cavazos, award winning with several short films, and one of Mexico's most successful music-video directors. In El Jardin (Narco Killer), the parents, the farmers, are bruta... (Full plot summary below)
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El Jardin, also titled Narco Killer, is a Mexican film about disconnection, immobilizing fear, conformity, loneliness, hope and tragedy, and the power of revolt and change when you band together with your fellow human being against that what paralyzes you with fear. By first-time feature director Christian Cavazos, award winning with several short films, and one of Mexico's most successful music-video directors. In El Jardin (Narco Killer), the parents, the farmers, are brutally murdered by a narco gang, because they will not give up their precious land, without which they have no future, nothing to leave their children. Land that is close to a newly built bridge that would have given the farmers new and great possibilities, but the narco gang also sees how the bridge will benefit them, but for this to realize itself they need the farmers' land. Felipe (Iván Aragón from tv series El Chapo and Tijuana) and his father has a difficult relationship before the father is murdered in the massacre, together with Felipe's mother. Felipe, who is egocentric and dreams of another life, despising the one his parents have in his eyes chosen, immediately wants revenge, because it is too painful to feel how he treated his parents. He brings with him a sister, Rosa, played by Alexia Alexander (debuting), and her brother, Pedro, played by Luca Valentini (from El Juego de las Llaves). Rosa also dreams of leaving the village of El Jardin, also having shut her mother out before she was killed, just like Felipe did with his parents. But her dream is to become a pop star, appearing on La Voz. Pedro, his mother's everything, is withdrawn from the world, quiet and shut off, but he registers everything going on. On Felipe's quest to murder the narco gang's boss El Jefe (Plutarco Haza from El Señor de los Cielos), rage devouring Felipe, the trio are hunted by ruthless, nihilistic henchman El Virgen (Israel Islas from Narcos: Mexico) belonging to El Jefe. The quest of the trio leads to Mexico City and their transformation. When the trio open up to each other, they begin to see and care for each other. They are no longer paralyzed, but slowly become the opposite, smart, intelligent and powerful. Together. Rosa, Pedro and Felipe find their authenticity, but there will be a high price to pay for developing their true, powerful selves, but also great reward. El Virgen finally finds what he has searched for all along. And El Jefe finally tells his daughter that he does everything for her, and he finds an especially tragic end. The resolution of this film is not what one would think for the trio, when their up until now inwards directed force, destructive, is directed outwards, constructive.
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