Characters In Sicario

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Character Portrayal of Moral Development In the movie Sicario, Benicio del Toro plays Alejandro, a for-hire assassin, or Sicario as they are known in Mexico, whose roots are traced to the Medellin Cartel, perhaps the biggest cartel in Colombian history. He is hired by the CIA to aid in the capturing of Mexican drug lord Fausto Alarcón. Although Alejandro has other plans as he has had previous encounters with Alarcón, who in the past had his wife decapitated and threw his daughter in a vat of acid. In one of the scenes from the beginning of the movie, after having brought a prisoner over from Mexico to the U.S side, Alejandro proceeds to interrogate him. The man is revealed to be Guillermo Diaz, brother of Manuel Diaz the right hand of Mr. Alarcón. Alejandro decides to torture him after even the sight of him scares …show more content…

Alejandro has killed Manuel Diaz after he took him to Fausto Alarcon’s house. He proceed to move through the ground killing all bodyguards he finds until ultimately seeing Fausto at the dinner table with his two kids and wife. Alejandro approaches them and urges them to eat after they are scared of an armed man near them. Alejandro sits down and reminisces of what Fausto did to his family. He proceeds to kill Fausto’s family and later Fausto himself. Alejandro killed Fausto for two reasons: to restore order by giving the Colombian cartels a chance to control the drug trade in Mexico and to avenge his family. The latter being a simple excuse ranking only on the 2nd stage of Moral Development. However the first is way higher. Turning over power to the Colombian cartels will restore order in Mexico and create an issue which the U.S government can better control. A reason well in the 4th stage of Moral Development where “wrongdoers are punished and, law abiders are punished,” and there is a duty to maintain order even if that mean just choosing the lesser of two evils

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