I was NOT ready for SICARIO | First Time Reaction!
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They didn't use he as bait...they actually said don't go in the bank! Now once she did they knew that they would come after her thus following her.
Yep, you’re right! I just missed that while watching it for the first time. (I was kinda just in shock from the situation 😂)
They are watching you just as you are watching them.
Think about how short the time between seeing the bank video and getting someone in a position to get to Kate and that person works for the police and knows her partner. That is a very long reach and and a very fast response by the cartel. It's also why they tell her a little as possible. The more information you compartmentalize the less chance the cartels will get information.
Mmhmm. Every time Matt said "don't do this" she did something stupid. And got hurt for it.
Unsatisfied is exactly the point of the film.
I found this film to be amazingly satisfying. This is not a black and white world, we live in the gray....this movie fully embraced it.
@ The point of the film, the message of the film was the unsatisfying outcomes of the war on drugs. Didn’t mean the film itself was unsatisfactory in any way, loved it myself. Very well done and impactful. Guess I was unclear?🤪
When I saw you were going to watch this I said "oh she is not ready for this" 😂😂😂
You were right 😂😂😂
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Another incredibly written story by Taylor Sheridan. We think this story is about Kate, but it's about Alejandro. Kate is the audience. We only know what she knows, we only see what she sees until it shifts very late in the story. So well done and amazing directing by Villeneuve.
He's an amazing actor also (Sons Of Anarchy) but he has found his stride as a director/ story teller
The score in this movie does so much to build tension.
too bad the composer overdosed about 1 year later!
Sicario is an amazing movie. Probably the one that launched Villeneuve on his major rise in Hollywood.
The question Kate has to answer is: "Does she want Alejandro out there fighting against the cartels his way, or does she want to shoot him in the back and become a cold blooded killer like he is?"
Every character in this movie represents a different take on the question "Do the ends justify the means?" Matt Graver believes wholeheartedly that they do, and he is never in doubt about it. Alejandro Gillick used to believe in the law; he was a prosecutor, but after his family is killed, he decides that the ends of defeating the cartels and getting revenge for his family justifies performing the same act that made him who he is, killing a family. Kate Macer believes that the ends do not justify the means, but at the end of the movie, she is caught between two different questions about ends and means: first, does wanting to stop Alejandro from fighting the cartels justify murdering him in cold blood, and second, does wanting to put an end to cartel violence justify letting Alejandro continue fighting the war his way? In the end, she doesn't kill him, and he gets to continue fighting, which means that Kate, at least tacitly, believes that his ends justify his means.
And the last scene in the movie, the soccer game, is not just showing that nothing has changed; it's actually symbolic foreshadowing about what happens in the world after the movie ends. The two teams represent the cartels and the forces fighting them. When the shooting starts, both teams stop playing, symbolizing what happened to the war now that the cartel leader Alejandro assassinated was killed. Eventually, someone, the police officer's son we've been following, starts playing again, symbolizing that eventually someone else will rise to take over the now leaderless cartel.
Kate must have also understood that if she killed Alejandro, she'd be dead in less than a week.
At the end of the day Alejandro is the "hero" of this story. And I've always thought that. Doesn't mean he's innocent, but this is his story, and he gets the justice and resolution he deserves
Benicio del Toro such great actor!!!!
The ending is perfect. Josh Brolin even says it after Kate gets shot. "Order is the best we can hope for." The drug war will never end. The violence will never end.
I love this movie for many reasons, but one thing that's so interesting about it to me is that typically you'd have Kate's character succeed in changing the system, or beating it in some way. But in this movie the system beats her, which not only feels realistic, but is just straight up refreshing IMO. No punches pulled, no "girl boss" anything.
Hell or High Water and Wind River are by the same screenwriter, and both are great movies
7:32 'Doors and corners, watch your doors and corners, that's where they get you' -Joseph Miller, The Expanse(tv show)
Exceptional movie. Perfect control of audience tension.
i.e. the barking dog in the car, just adding even more tension
Addie you're a nice person. The world as it is is generally kept hidden from most people because they're not capable of understanding the true nature of evil. This movie was not entertainment but a look into the world of evil in a more realistic way.😢
Hey Addie I love how you (perhaps sometimes unknowingly) go outside of your comfort zone in these movies. It's really great when a piece of media can make us think and feel outside of ourselves into such a complex grey situation.
I have seen this movie so many times and I just noticed the dude watching TV in the very beginning was sitting on car seats. lol.
6:25 I was on a bus in that same line of vehicles waiting to cross the border in early 2017. I had seen the movie only a few weeks before my trip, staying in El Paso before taking a bus five hours south to Chihuahua City to visit my (then) girlfriend, so this scene was fresh in my mind as the bus seemed to trudge, inch by inch. I had already known about the reputation of Juarez, and how frequently people just disappeared. I was quite relieved to get back into El Paso.
I really love your perspective! Watching it with you feels like I'm watching it for the first time, again. The way you were rooting for Kate was how I was rooting for Alejandro. I wouldn't say you were naive in your view, but maybe optimistic. Love your channel, Addie. Never change "Pony-boy". 😆
LOVE how they hold suspense in this movie. I actually found this because I enjoyed Dune part 1 so much that I was looking for more Denis Villeneuve.
Was not disappointed.
Great reaction Addie like always, love this movie, Talk about body language, go to the scene with Alejandro and the Cartel Boss' family at the dinner table. Watch the wife slowly drop her head after Alejandro tells her husband, "Don't forget about my daughter." She knows she's ignored all the evil that he's done but now it's time to pay the bill and they are dead. Also pay attention to the Cartel Boss' shoulders throughout the scene. His shoulders are back and his frame is strong and unbroken until Alejandro shoots the family. His shoulders are then sagging as he's been broken and is now too terrified to even move. Both the actor and actress did such an amazing job in the scene and it's overlooked. Keep up the good work.
lol this is ganna b e gooooooooooooooood. Love seeing Addie step out of her comfort zone with some of these movies. Shes ganna be a stress sammich lolol
The classic tale that answers the question of how far you're willing to go for revenge, even if it isn't yours.
For another movie that deals with the US - Mexico drug trade, check out Traffic (2000). Funnily enough starring (among many others) Benicio del Toro who played Alejandro here.
this is such a beautiful film. i know it's weird to use such an adjective to describe this gritty film, but the tension, use of music, and cinematography was incredible.
friendly reminder the character Steve Forsing is based off real life delta force founder Mike Vining, who looked like an IT nerd, but stacked. fucking. bodies.
Jeffrey Donovan is such an underrated actor. Loved the nod to Vining in this movie.
. . . Mostly other Delta guys after crashing helicopters in the desert.
@@leftorright04everytime I watch this movie I feel the need to watch all seasons of Burn Notice :)
@@christianlevesque5239 you should because it's an incredible show. I have watched through a few times and always impressed with his range.
@@leftorright04 Plus Sam Axe is awesome
I vividly remember seeing this in theaters when it was released, and when I walked out at the end it was the most exhausted my body has ever been from a movie. My entire body had been tensed for two straight hours.
To fight monsters, you have to become a monster. If you only play by the rules, you can't beat the ones that don't.
Denis Villeneuve is a genius. There is so much going on, subtext-wise. I never get tired of watching and picking up on the details.
in that one scene where they just cross the border back to the US and stuck in traffic, the subtitles always make me chuckle. Alejandro (Del Toro) says "Compas, compas" but its translated as "In peace, in peace" which would be "con paz, con paz". What he's really saying is Compas, short for Compadre, basically saying like "hey buddy, hey buddy" or "dude" , take it easy.
I think what I like most about this movie is that it makes us see an ugly truth very few people are willing to accept. There cannot be any "good guys" in this fight. This is one fight where you need to fight the way the enemy is fighting. The reason why we continually lose this fight is because we try at least hover around our self imposed rules while the enemy does whatever it takes to win. This movie shows that the only "good" that you can achieve is by completely eliminating the enemy.
Actually the reason we are losing this fight is the reason the CIA agent states, until we can get the 20% of Americans to stop using the drugs they bring over we can only control it, not stop it. President Bush asked the president of Mexico why he won't stop the drug trade and Vicente Fox told him that unless Americans stop paying any amount of money to get the drugs he cannot stop it. If there is no demand, the supply stops. Go ahead and get rid of the enemy, others will step up to sell us the drugs.
This is a dark movie I did not expect on the channel😅
Love watching with you Addie! Stay awesome.
That was as real as anything you see in life. Truth is really hard to see when your eyes are innocent. Loved reaction as always can't wait see part2 of movie
Addie is extra jumpy for this one 😂
Addie...i can't believe you reacted to this movie! Mind blown!!!
All i could think was, "you sweet summer child"!
I ❤ this reaction especially since Addie is by the book and knew it would drive her crazy with the ending
The family execution is as brutal as a scene like that can be.
Obviously he kills the wife and kids first so the Drug lord can live with that for a few seconds but he also shoots to wound so he'll know that he suffered just a little bit more before he died.
The sequel is also great.
I hope the third part gets made someday.
You are absolutely right, Addie. The ending is unsatisfying. Like the war on drugs. But, Alejandro warned us at the beginning. Nothing will make sense.
A great reaction, to a fantastic film! I would suggest "Wind River" next. It's another Tyler Sheridan story. Then "Hell or High Water". That will round out his Western "trilogy".
Great reaction! This was like watching the sun watching a black hole devour a galaxy. Loved every minute of it.
If you enjoyed this movie, the writer also did two other movies; 'Hell or High Water' and 'Wind River' that are also both worth checking out. The movies aren't connected but they're kind of an unofficial trilogy. Sicario also has a sequel, alsos written by the same guy
Kate is the antagonist of the film. She's told repeatedly that she's nowhere near crossing the line and still refuses to get out of the way and do the job she's agreed to do.
Kate stands for us viewers, who watch the events unfold in bewilderment.
This superbly staged thriller shows a terrible reality and asks uncomfortable questions without pretending to know the answers.
The movie is a masterpiece, the build-up of tension is superb and the actors deliver top performances.
Just subbed. Love your reactions 😍. After living along the Texas border, i can say this movie is the most accurate portrayal
no one is ready for this film, it really tackles a conflict that far too many people don't have any real understanding of. The cartel world is one that Americans truly can not comprehend unless you are already living on the edge of the boarder, and even then non-hispanic america is largely shielded from the effects by an information embargo on both sides of the fence.
I think you've nailed it. This movie is "intense" and "haunting." When I fished it the first time, I wasn't 100% sure how I felt. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized how brilliant this film is and now it sits in my top 10 films of all time. It sits with you like a stone in the stomach. It makes you think. It is utterly unlike anything else. It is a masterpiece.
Love your content Addie, keep it up 😁
Watch "Wind River". Same writer, amazing film.
thanks Addie! the one that launched Denis Villenueuve was Incendies which he got an academy award for... watch that one for the most shocking twist in film history
I think this was Addie's best reaction yet.
Another Taylor Sheridan-written neo-Western that is absolutely fantastic is "Hell or High Water." It's a masterpiece.
Hi Addie hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
Well Addie... "You saw things you weren't supposed to see".. haha lol Great reaction! The haunting soundtrack is like another character in the movie! I luv this movie and there is no satisfying ending to this one. Great cast with Blunt, Del Toro and Brolin! Hope you watch Saciro 2! Another great story with Benico Del Toro!
Another great Taylor Sheridan written movie is "Wind River" dark, but with beautiful cinematography, and a satisfying(if not good) ending
Absolutely brilliant movie..just so gritty and mean.😂 Jaw dropping...number 2 Day of the Soldado is good but not as good as 1..we have been waiting for 7 years for number 3 which is supposedly happening..❤
Tonally between this and The Lego movie, you've gotta have whiplash 🤣
I like how it seems that Kate should know more info at any point but doesn't because she doesn't need to know it. She's just a signature for the spook to have so he and his asset can work inside the states.
This is one of my favorite films. It is perfect in many ways, imo.
It's adorable watching Addie begin to realize how corrupt and shady our government truly is! She summed it up pretty well at the end, though.. "I didn't ever know who to trust.. You can't trust anyone, apparently!" Indeed you can't, Addie, Indeed you can't! 😆
Realizing corruption through Jewish made propaganda movies? LOLOL room temperature iq comment.
Denis Villeneuve is a genius! Watch ALL his movies! 🥰
26:05 "This was so unsatisfying!"
Welcome to the truth of the world.
The sunset scene before the tunnel attack is beautifully symbolic.
The Delta Force commandos are walking-down into the darkness-from the twilight of military Special Operations into the blackness of CIA undercover operations.
Her plate caught the round. 9mm. It's level III or above she's alright.
I love this movie and that Kate got what she got by the end for being so dumb 😂 like you went knowing the whole thing is reliant on you going or to say you’re gonna snitch
Useful tip for spotting CIA operatives in a group of regular military brass - look for the guys wearing super casual clothes and/or rocking the 80s mustache and glasses combo 😂 I just love how brash Josh Brolin was with it and didn’t care that people knew
An amazing film that is a masterclass in how to build tension.
Honestly Alejandro is so well played. And he is the actual "hero" of the story. Its his story in general. And he gets his due revenge.
Also when he shot the family at the end. He let the drug lord off easy. Because Alejandro only made him wait about 10 seconds until he killed him as well. Alejandro had to go through years of pain instead, mourning his family. Which if you ask me, is much harder. So what Alejandro did was almost merciful in way. Plus got rid of a man, while nice on the surfacre, has so many killed every day. Alejandro did the world a favor
Finally!! More people need to watch this movie
Oh no... poor Addie, this is one of the more gritty and brutal films in recent history.
Yes! One of my favorite movies. Thanks! Please react to the sequal
Aww Addie is awesome
You should react to the film Traffic (2000) directed by Steven Soderbergh, it takes a larger look at Mexico and the war on drugs.
This won't end well for Addie.
I love this movie more every time I watch it.
The two questions this movie asks is " does the end justify the means ". the only one who says No in the movie is Kate. But in the end she is forced to capitulate to the will of the majority.
The second is. How far would you go to stand up for your principles and beliefs. Would you die for them?.
The other side uses no book. And oftentimes the only way to stay in the fight is to fight by the same rules (or lack thereof) that the enemy does.
There is a sequel to this 3 years later.
During the time of filming they could film in Juarez cause of the violence. Therefore they created a stage of Juarez.
Barbarism in contrast to civilization. Everybody wants to be a gangster, nobody wants to be a civilian. It pulls people back in, because not enough people will voluntarily rise far enough above. "It's the lure of easy money, it's got a very strong appeal."
I’m sure this will upset some people but Kate is not very skilled or logical. It’s by pure luck she isn’t killed entering a room without clearing it or back up.
She can see at least 8 armed men at the border and instead of getting out of the vehicle she just sits there. She sees a guy about to kill her just before he shoots. Again, pure luck not tactics.
They tell her “Don’t go into the bank!” But she knows better. She almost gets killed because she just doesn’t listen. Had that shot not gone off she would have been choked out.
Maybe she’s trained in something other than tactics, white collar crime? Profiler? But don’t put her in tactical situations.
Then rather than help stop the cartel she decides I’m going to destroy the people trying to stop the cartel because they aren’t following US laws in Mexico.
Alejandro says is perfectly “You’re not a wolf and this is the land of the wolves”.
Well said
DEI hire
Kate represents the audience POV and their expectations of "good guys" and morality. Making the character a female let the film set up and then subvert recent hollywood "girlboss" tropes because instead of being the main character, she's just a straphanger giving legal cover to the operation. She's way oversold to Graver(and the audience) by her supervisor.Her incomprehension of what she's there for is a plot gimmick, because any agent selected for the Task Force would be perfectly aware of the why and wherefore of the FBI's role and likely eager to take the gloves off. Her rookie partner fully understood what was happening.
Presumably, any rational person, no matter how morally naive or rigid in their law and order procedural views, would have calmed down quickly and signed off on the operation without requiring a near death experience at the hands of an assassin. I think the intent was to tease the audience a little longer into thinking that she'd stand up for what's "Right" and there would be a conventionally satisfying ending.
No issue with the bad tactics in how she entered the room in the beginning. However I do take issue with the rest of it. All the other complaints you bring up are not some issue of her lacking training/skill... it's due to her trying to follow the law & being kept in the dark about everything. She sits in the vehicle because at the border because yeah what they did was absolutely illegal, hell going in the manner they did to simply pick up the guy was illegal in itself. Her going into the bank is again due to her trying to build a lawful case against the guy & them keeping her in the dark about the reality of what they are doing. Informing people in an operation of information like none of us are to enter the bank during this op due to concerns of the [insert target] being able to access security footage the bank has is sort of a standard procedure type of thing that is brought in the pre-op briefing for things.
"Then rather than help stop the cartel she decides I’m going to destroy the people trying to stop the cartel because they aren’t following US laws in Mexico." - Now for this one my criticism moves outside of having to rely on sh-t within the framework of the movie & into real life... at least mostly. Within the framework of the movie as the main cartel guy killed at the end of the movie says, where do you think they learned it from? Or as Matt explains at the end they aren't even trying to stop cartels in the larger since, they are trying to take down a specific cartel so another cartel can take over & one that "they" [as in the US government] can have more control over. No one here is the good guy, the closest one is Kate herself but even she isn't great or anything as she does fail to do the right thing in the end & instead ends up being an accomplice.
Now, with the wider real-life context the situation is actually even worse. Ever since WWII & an agreement made between the government & Lucky Luciano to acquire his assistance, along with that of the organizations he was involved in, on a number of things all major drug trafficking routes into the US have been operated with by those with arrangements made between them & various parts of the US government [the Military Intelliigence at first, then the pre-DEA FBN organization, FBI, CIA, then the DEA, etc...] From the Mafia ran French connection for heroin trafficking to the east coast, from the Chinese nationalist leader during their civil war Chiang Kai-shek via Hong Kong & what became known as Taiwan to the west coast for heroin. There was cooperation with a number of trafficking organizations throughout Mexico, Central & South American countries in relation to Operation Condor & the CIA activities against Castro/Contras. One of these connections is what ultimately started the issue of Mexican Cartels, when the creation & growth of the Guadalajara Cartel appeared. To the connection to the cultivation, processing, & trafficking of poppies in the Golden Triangle during the wars in Vietnam & surrounding countries, then when those conflicts started to die down the connection with all of that shifted the major cultivation happening in Afghanistan [both times, from the late 70s/early 80s to again in the 2000's through 2010's. And the most recently known connections between the government & Mexican cartels specifically involve the period from 2000 through 2012 when there was an agreement with the Sinoloa Cartel that allowed them to develop into the primary cartel in the country until fairly recently. This knowledge comes from confirmation by a US government official in a 2014 court case against a high-ranking Sinoloa member in the US who was trying to claim he was immune from prosecution due to that agreement. The judge ordered the government to send someone to appear in court who would have knowledge of such an agreement if one existed so that the judge could ask questions to determine whether or not the prosecution could actually continue. The official confirmed an agreement, but the judge after questioning the official on the specifics ruled that the agreement did not protect the defendant from the charges in this case.
And there is every reason in the world to believe that these connections continue to persist through to this day. There isn't any definitive evidence of this & there is unlikely to be until some years in the future. But, some circumstantial evidence exists from the fact that the leaders of the cartel that gained dominance after the Sinoloa Cartel was no longer favored by the government... that cartel being Los Zetas are lead by US-trained former members of the Mexican armed forces. Another circumstantial indication of cooperation continuing is that incident back in 2023 where some Americans were in Mexico because 1 of them was going to have some medical procedure(s) done & there was some sort of incident that happened with some members who happened to be part of the Gulf Cartel, including one of them who had some sort of rank above the others but still an overall low-rank in the cartel killing 2 of them & kidnapping the others. Only to have the kidnapped Americans taken to a rural medical facility & released along with a public apology by the cartel to the society, the victims, & the families/friends of the Americans killed. Then a few days after that a group of men who were blindfolded, bound, & stripped to their underwear appearing in a truck bed with a note from the cartel saying these were the members who were responsible for the incident so that they could be prosecuted for it. Many people believe that had been all a show & the men were likely not the ones responsible or perhaps even innocent people they abducted to do this. I actually believe that it is more likely than not to be the actual people responsible for it. There's no guarantee because obviously I don't personally know that, but I definitely think it is more likely than not. It's why the wide-scale, less discriminate types of violence is & always has been constrained to be only on the other side of the border & even the more discriminate forms being pretty uncommon on this side of it with virtually no collateral victims [family/friends of the target,] when they do occur as is deliberately done on the other side most of the time.
@@aaronhoy3410 If people are about to kill you it doesn’t matter what side of the border you are on, you don’t just sit there and let them, rules or not.
The people she’s with are Special Forces but instead of following their lead she “knows better”.
I’m not going to comment on the real life events because I’m only talking about the film.
I get her skepticism, but nobody I knew in law enforcement would risk their life or those around them by sitting in a car while armed men surrounded the car, rules or not. She even tells them not to get out. Odds are some or most would have been killed if they listened to her.
Also just because the leader of the cartel says it’s the US that “taught us” to throw children into vats of acid doesn’t make it true.
He also tries to justify the murder of Alejandro’s family by saying “It’s not personal”. He’s a psychopath, anything he does has an excuse. He has zero remorse. I wouldn’t take him as a reliable source.
I’m not saying torturing people for info is acceptable, but breaking a rule like shooting people trying to kill you because of an arbitrary line I don’t take issue with.
I also think taking out the cartel bosses kids was terrible.
If you haven't seen Hell or High Water yet, I'd highly recommend it. It's a very different movie but it's the same writer, Taylor Sheridan. It stars Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, and Ben Foster and they are magnificent, and the story is far better than its tepid title implies haha.
I think icky is exactly the feeling this movie was going for. It's a look at the world's corruption and it is uncomfortable.
the music at the end was the same music played when Denzel Washington watched the environmental video in the movie "the Pelican Brief" with Julia Roberts...
The reason you're feeling unfulfilled is that you're meant to. This movie is damn near perfect in that it doesn't do what the viewer expects it to do.
I really like the music in this movie, if you can call it that. It's more like noise than music and it enhances your feeling of unease.
The next movie is well worth watching.
Such a great film.
This is the land of wolves now.
Fun fact both Josh Brolin and Benecio Del Toro are in the MCU. And Brolin's character, Thanos, kills Del Toro's (The Collector)
This movie is the definition of fight fire with fire, nobody said it would be pretty or satisfying. Still a great tense movie, watch the sequel.
You have to watch "Wind River" next. Another Taylor Sheridan masterpiece.
such a good movie. details like the barking dog in the background adding more tension.....
I actually really like this movie! 😅 The sequel, not so much.
Unfortunately, I think there's a lot of truth into this movie. The truth is that the drug trade never will be stopped. If there's a demand, there's always gonna be a supply.
The dirty truth is, if we're ever going to "win" we need to stop playing by a different set of rules. This movie show's some of what that means. You hear Kate's supervisor say it in the movie. "If you think your operating outside what you're allowed to do, you're not. The line has been moved."
I always just felt that Kate was really off as a choice for their task force though. 🤔 She's just so naive throughout the movie to the point where the OGA guys make a judgment call to keep her in the dark so that their names ever end up in an indictment. Any Federal agent I've met, (a handful) would probably be 110% in on this.
Kate is the antagonist of the movie but not the villain. She represents the mentality that we must always operate 'by the book' lest we become the villains. That mentality gets innocent people brutally killed. Alejandro represents the opposite end of that spectrum where we become indistinguishable from our enemies.
A couple of friends of mine did a drinking game with a shot for every body. You can guess how the first 15 minutes went
The windows got rolled down, not just the ones they were aiming out of, to help the pressure wave that happens when you fire a mini explosion inside the barrel for each bullet. In an enclosed car that would be very uncomfortable for your ears.
Like you, I had been wanting to see this movie for a long time & just never got around to it, for whatever reason. What a damn, good movie!! I loved it right away. It's unfortunate that Denis didn't do the sequel, but it's still good & worth a watch. I needed more after watching the first one. The sequel still feels unsatisfying, but you get more & it helped. A little. lol
Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.
Pablo Escobar
Great movie. Definitely check out the second one. And there's going to be a third.
Ohhh Adz, this is a goodin’.
I think the sequel is better.
I didn´t think that in The end you where going so get Angry but this is
A Movie that where are going to
Make......
Awesome reaction! 😊 I still waiting your reaction about Batman&Robin 1997 too!
Greetings from Italy! 😊
The misdirection of the water gallon scene is my favorite. Your mind is thinking waterboarding, but they imply other things, and the film never tells you.
What you thinking they implied? Are you suggesting something else because he was standing close to him.... Haha They clearly waterboarded him. They basically directly tell you that when he comments that the other dude was "feeding" him water.
@Mubiki no water is being used
He's choking on something, but it isn't water.
@@DXChrisCross I don't think it's what u think either. I don't care how confident you are... you put something in someone's mouth, you can expect them to bite down.
I think they intentionally left it ambiguous, but there is no way I can make THAT assumption.
@ This. I know they didn't waterboard him specifically in that scene, but they are going to. He is definitely torturing him, but like you said, he isn't doing THAT.
What he is prob doing is covering his nose and mouth and suffocating him almost to the point of passing out. This is actually common before waterboarding. They deprive the person of air, and THEN they waterboard. Increases the effectiveness because they are already gasping for air. Brutal stuff.