follows a reporter accustomed to war zones who finds herself stuck in something much stranger. Early-80s arms shipments to Central American militias, governmental stonewalling, transactions in which there are many stages between payment and what's actually being bought — these will all sound familiar to those who've studied the Reagan Administration's dealings with anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua.
She flies to Florida, where her dad — who left when she was a kid, and has always lived outside the law — is desperate for her help: "I got a big deal comin' through," he brags. But he can't pull it off while confined to bed, and he'll be half a million in debt if he abandons it. He convinces Elena to go in his stead, where she learns she's supposed to sell a garage full of surplus military gear for $1 million.
Alma was part of Elena's earlier efforts to wrest information from Secretary of State George Schultz about unofficial U.S. policy regarding the Contras. Schultz, whose full name is never said here, works with another official whose role is never quite clear: Treat Morrison, played by Ben Affleck.
We do grasp the guilt Elena feels on her occasional calls with her daughter, who's alone at a boarding school and would rather be living with Elena's ex-husband. We get the curiosity that keeps Elena, an obviously resourceful woman, from finding a way back to the States at the first hint of danger. And though the details are foggy , we more or less follow the many stages of her attempts to outrun whoever is trying to kill her.
'(Perhaps the Netflix technicians who wounded Mudbound's cinematography on the small screen, turning shadowy interior scenes into overcompressed glotches of black-and-blackish pixels' What the fuck THR? This is called compression. Dark scenes always suffer with compression.
Last two sentences of this review - [salutes]
unluckyfanz maybe they will review nine days too 😍😍